[RTTY] WPX suggestion

[John Merrill]

I noticed in the XE contest, and from time to time others, there was a US
station that was not sending 599. I tried to get him to send it but he
wouldn't. Did not put him in my log.

73, John N1JM

On 2/7/13 5:20 PM, "Alejandro XE1EE" <xe1ee at telmexmail.com> wrote:

>Agree on eliminate the 599, is not needed; including on real signals of
>333 everyone sends 599 because is part of the macro we send.
>
>However if this is stated on the rules (RST plus serial number) we must
>send it, or we can earn a yellow card or anything we don¹t like to
>receive.
>
>73
>
>
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>
>From: Bill Turner 
>Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2013 6:05 PM
>To: RTTY Reflector
>Subject: Re: [RTTY] WPX suggestion
>
>ORIGINAL MESSAGE: 
>On Thu, 07 Feb 2013 15:55:46 -0800, you wrote:
>
>>You are sending four extra characters.  If you make 1000 QSOs that's at
>>least 4000 extra characters, not counting repeats.
>
>REPLY: 
>OOPS... I forgot that as your number goes up, the number of leading zeroes
>go down.
>
>So it wouldn't be 4000 extra zeroes, only a few till you get to 100 and
>then no more.
>
>No wonder I never win these things.  :-)
>
>But by the same token, how about eliminating the useless 599? Since this
>would be saved both transmitting and receiving, now you're talking some
>real savings. 
>
>Bill, W6WRT
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