[WriteLog] Questions answered

[John Bastin]

On Jul 25, 2010, at 12:14:16, DickT-W0RAA wrote:

> I have 
> never
> understood why a RTTY station would send a 5NN or a TOO in a RTTY contest.

The reason you see a TOO in your printout is because your decoder missed the SHIFT character which tells it to start printing numbers. TOO is 599, unshifted.

This can easily happen in bad conditions where the signal is marginal. He's not really sending TOO.


John K8AJS
bastinj at gmail.com