[RTTY] Exchanges

EA2RY ea2ry at ea2ry.com
Tue Oct 2 15:29:25 EDT 2012


In the Baudot code, the transmission of letters and numbers are the same length.
In RTTY not necessary to change the 9 by N.
I think it should not be used 5NN in RTTY

73 de EA2RY
EF7R on CQ WW RTTY 2012

El 02/10/2012, a las 21:11, "Rick" <RickPalio at att.net> escribió:

> My personal favorite is "5NN" on RTTY !!!!
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: RTTY [mailto:rtty-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Jeff Stai
> Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2012 10:09 AM
> To: Bill, W6WRT
> Cc: RTTY Reflector
> Subject: Re: [RTTY] Exchanges
> 
> I did see the dreaded "IN XX" a couple times. I saw the "IN IN DE" once.
> 
> And a couple times I saw someone use "GA" in the context of Good Afternoon,
> said context only being discovered after I had recorded GA. Don't use GA
> either.
> 
> And while we are at it, for gosh sakes don't send back my exchange! Just
> because the logging program lets you do that doesn't make it a good idea.
> 
> 73 - jeff wk6i
> 
> 
> On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 5:57 AM, Bill, W6WRT <dezrat1242 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
>> ORIGINAL MESSAGE:
>> On Tue, 2 Oct 2012 12:26:09 +0300, SV1XV wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> More or less I agree, this is a very good and unambiguous exchange. 
>>> Only in the case of the reply I would prefer:
>>> 
>>> ZC4LI 599 NY NY DE ABC1Y
>> 
>> REPLY:
>> Using "DE" in a contest where the exchange is US states is not 
>> recommended. That happens to be the abbreviation for Delaware, and if 
>> there were QRM or QRN the "NY" in the above might be missed and the Q 
>> logged as Delaware.
>> 
>> Likewise, "IN" should not be used as in "W6WRT IN CA" lest it be 
>> mistaken as Indiana. I didn't hear anyone do this in the recent WW, 
>> but it does happen sometimes.
>> 
>> 73, Bill W6WRT
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