Why don't we get rid of the ludicrous 599 and really save a lot of time? In the recent BARTG Sprint I never missed it a bit. Neither did my decoders. 73, Kermit, AB1J In a message dated 2/7/2013 11:55:59 P.M. GMT Standard Time, dezrat1242 at yahoo.com writes: Every character takes 167 mS to send. If you send K1AM 599 001 001 W6WRT instead of K1AM 599 1 1 W6WRT