[UK-CONTEST] CW Letters instead of Numbers

[Dave Sergeant]

I have never ever heard e being sent for 5 and that would definitely 
floor me for a few seconds. In addition I found (as a weak QRP 
station) that the other station seemed to have difficulty copying my 
serial if I sent (say) 6T7 but got it first time when I changed to 
607.

The abbreviation may well help save the sender a second per QSO but 
it hardly helps if a significant number of operators fail to get it 
the first time and ask for a repeat.

73 Dave G3YMC

On 2 Jun 2004 at 9:18, Andy swiffin wrote:

> 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! 

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