[UK-CONTEST] CW Letters instead of Numbers

[Donald Field]

Several CW contests have dropped RST as well (e.g. EU Sprint), just for the
record. But don't get EI5DI going on this topic!!

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 12:14 PM
Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] CW Letters instead of Numbers


> >
> >Surely you have answered your own question, and the key 'word' has to
> be
> >NUMBER
> >
> >'5nn' is NOT a NUMBER........although I imagine that 99% of ops use
> it
> >anyway [Guilty M'Lud] and have done for years
>
> Ahh, hmmm, I'm not sure whether RST is quite so clearly defined, but
> maybe it is- anyone got the definition?.  That's why I was confining
> myself to the serial number which is clearly defined as a number.
>
> >.......however 'aet' whatever, will never be a number - not by any
> >stretch of the imagination.
>
> exactement.
>
> >
> >Changing tack slightly.....is not RS[T] in a contest wholly
> superfluous
> >? Q5, and then asking for repeats ?
>
> Ahh, now there's a good one.  Could I take this oportunity to point out
> that some enlightened RTTY contests have dropped the RST.
>
>
> Cheers
> andy
>
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