[WriteLog] Voice-keying of automated serial numbers

[Eric Hilding]

On Sun, 21 Dec 2003, Bob McCormick W1QA wrote:
>
> I would like to hear the opinions of some non-English
> speaking users on this one ...

Hi Bob:

Ditto!

> Personally I would rather type the numbers in an
> ordinal sense progressively ... even when someone
> reads me numbers in a business sense, I find it a
> LOT easier to type in 1234 hearing: one-two-three-four,
> versus one-thousand two-hundred thirty-four. Yuck!
>
> In some languages, native speakers would say
> 34 as four and thirty.

That's why I am looking for more examples of "options",
however I doubt a DX SSB'er with an exchange serial number of 34 would say
it on the air as four and thirty :-)

> As for the K6VVA example on that web URL ...
> if the serial number was 4345 ... personally,
> I would never want to hear it said as
> forty-three-forty-five.  Ugh.  Please don't.

That was just ONE optional 'config' voicing as an example.  Others were in
a previous post.

> Maybe I should just stick to CW ...

Naw, don't give up that easily!  Seriously, I appreciate your insightful
comments.  Rome was not built in a day and I certainly do not have all the
answers.  This is a Borg ("Collective Mind") issue to be solved...for
those unable to do so to date for similar reasons in which I am
interested exploring.

73...

Rick, K6VVA