[RTTY] RM-11708, the "other side"

[Kai]

Bill
This one is in the "let's get serious" category. I've handled several thousand 
of pieces of
message traffic by voice in ONE of our hurricane emergencies in Florida.
I mean voice messages *copied by hand, with re-reads for clarity*. There are 
serious safety
of life issues!
I do not recommend voice. Digital would be faster, more accurate, and can be 
archived for
resolving continuing emergency and field-hospital issues. At the time reliable 
digital was simply
not available.

If you want to try what "copyby hand" feels like, I urge you to enter your next 
RTTY contest
using just a hand written log. I think you'll get the idea pretty quickly.

But, I'm sure you really did not mean "use voice" for messages in a real 
emergency seriously.

73
Kai, KE4PT


On 12/11/2013 11:36 AM, Bill Turner wrote:
> In a real emergency, just use voice.
>
> No special equipment required, fast and effective, less battery power,
> anyone can copy.
>
> 73, Bill W6WRT
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