I had one station in Ohio (I won't give his call) that was sending a
> report of TOO 9h. When I asked his State he kept repeating 9h.
Those weren't CUT NUMBERS - your decoder was in the wrong LTRS/FIGS
shift. Check the top two rows of the keyboard to see the relationship
between 1/q, 2/w, 3/e, 4/r, 5/t, 6/y, 7/u, 8/i, 9/o and 0/p ...
I was just about ready to send him a NIL (Not in Log) response in
the contest when he sent me OHIO. Nobody should have to spend time
when running or S&Ping to try to figure out what somebody is sending.
If you do any serious amount of RTTY you learn to recognize when the
shift is wrong and translate yourself. Several of the better programs
will do the conversion automatically if one uses shift-click or
hovers the mouse in the correct area of the screen.
73,
... Joe, W4TV
On 1/7/2014 4:12 PM, DickT-W0RAA wrote:
I am somewhat mystified why RTTY contesters send TOO for 599 in a RTTY
Contest or 5NN. Are they
saving anything (characters or time)?
I had one station in Ohio (I won't give his call) that was sending a report
of TOO 9h. When I asked his State
he kept repeating 9h. Finally he sends OHIO. This was the RTTY RU contest.
I looked him up on QRZ and dropped him an e-mail and mentioned (politely)
that a 9h was a little confusing
and that he may not be aware that he was sending CUT numbers. I suggested
he check his program (I suspect
he was using N1MM and had a box checked to send CUT numbers). He replied in
an e-mail "OK".
I was just about ready to send him a NIL (Not in Log) response in the
contest when he sent me OHIO. Nobody
should have to spend time when running or S&Ping to try to figure out what
somebody is sending. It breaks
the rhythm in a contest and slows things down. I guess I'll just have to
learn that OH is 9h. Duh!!!!! I wonder
what the CUT number is for FL or AL or LA, etc, etc?
It would be great if all of these hotshot ops would drop the cut numbers and
send just plain English.
SOAPBOX OFF.
Dick
W0RAA
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