[UK-CONTEST] 80MCC RTTY Leg
Peter Bowyer
peter at bowyer.org
Fri Apr 21 03:03:15 EDT 2006
On 21/04/06, Ray Hills <g3hrh at btinternet.com> wrote:
> Secondly can we please agree on a standard format for the number? Neither
> MMTTY nor MIX-W can cope automatically with 5NNxxx or with hyphens between
> 599 and xxx. Unlike CW there is no point in the former as N takes as many
> bits as 9.
Actually, in RTTY, 5NN 123 uses more bits than 599 123 - there's an
extra letter-shift and number-shift involved. All the more reason not
to do it!
Peter G4MJS
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