[RTTY] Take Two RTTY Exchange

Jerry Flanders jeflanders at comcast.net
Sat Jan 14 15:40:17 PST 2012


At 06:26 PM 1/14/2012, Kok Chen wrote:

>On Jan 14, 2012, at 2:35 PM, Jerry Flanders wrote:
>
> > The only way I can be _sure_ I have it right is to see it 3 times. If
> > two out of three agree, I probably have it.
>
>
>
>...For those who are fond of sending 599 twice, sending "599 CA 599 
>CA" is of course better than "599 599 CA CA" due to the behavior of 
>RTTY under Rayleigh fading.  Not that I ever advocate sending the 
>599 twice, or even worse, pretentiously calling it "RSQ." :-)  I'm 
>just trying to demonstrate the likely behavior of Baudot decoding 
>under HF propagation.
>
>73
>Chen, W7AY

But 599 CA CA CA makes much more sense than 599 CA 599 CA - right?

Jerry W4UK 



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