[UK-CONTEST] Cut Numbers

[G3SJJ]

Well said Don. There ain't many of us free thinking guys around it seems!

The only rider I would add is that a good contest operator understands that
not everyone is up to his standard and would therefore be prepared to vary
his speed and amount of abbreviations, rather than bulldoze through,
irrespective of whether the other guy understands are not.

As a personal choice, I find speeded up characters and full abbreviations
distracting, but may be that is a typical F1 tactic, and is working in my
case! I try to choose a smooth sending style which would attract punters
rather than put them off calling me.

Chris G3SJJ

-----Original Message-----
From: uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com
[mailto:uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com]On Behalf Of Donald Field
Sent: 02 June 2004 08:36
To: uk-contest at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] CW Letters instead of Numbers


"It doesn't seem right", you say, Andy. But why not? If there could be any
confusion with letters, then I can understand. But in WPX all you are
expecting is a number group, so there can be no ambiguity at all. I'm just
surprised your correspondent sent "5nn aetn". I would have expected "enn
aetn"! A second saved in a QSO is maybe 2,500 seconds in a contest, time for
another 100 QSOs, or several places in the final rankings! Just think what
trouble those Formula One boys would go to to save the odd second here or
there!! Trouble is, we Brits worry about whether "it's cricket" or not. The
rest of the world just want to win. Thank goodness our rugby team sat up and
paid attention (oops, not the Scottish rugby team, of course - sri!!).

73 Don G3XTT

----- Original Message -----
From: "Andy swiffin" <a.l.swiffin at dundee.ac.uk>
To: <uk-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2004 9:18 AM
Subject: [UK-CONTEST] CW Letters instead of Numbers


> Hi,
>
> What "does the team think" about the current practice of using letters
> rather than numbers in serials?  I know its common  practice to use 'n'
> instead of '9' and 't' instead of '0', but I observed dozens of stations
> replacing nearly all of the numbers, it came to a head when I received
> "5nn aetn from 1 station!
>
> It doesn't seem right to me, I don't even use 't' very much except when
> its at the beginning of the serial (i.e. below 100) when I send it as a
> long 't', when I want a zero in the middle of a serial I send a good ol'
> Sammy Morse zero.  If its acceptable practice to shorten the numbers
> like this I'll do it but I have my doubts.
>
> Cheers
> Andy
> gm8oeg
>
>
>
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