[TRLog] Digital Sound for Contesting

[Pete Smith]

In my opinion, for the .02 that's worth, digitally voiced serial numbers
are a non-starter.  Back when DVPs were new, I slaved for weeks trying to
come up with recorded digits and digit pairs that would produce
intelligible serial numbers with CT's text-to-speech capability.  Maybe I'm
not clever enough, but the best results were sufficiently unnatural that
they tended to throw people off in real-world contest circumstances.  I
made several hundred QSOs in SS phone that way, and felt that it slowed me
down at least 20 percent because of people asking for fills.



73, Pete Smith N4ZR
n4zr@contesting.com 

"That's WEST Virginia.  Thanks and 73"

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