Receiving “TOO” instead of “599” is not uncommon. I’ve always thought it was
because a SHIFT was lost in either transmission or reception.
If you look at the International Telegraphy Alphabet No. 2 (Baudot-Murray code
or ITA2) you’ll see that the 5 & T are the same, except for the Letters Shift
and the Figures Shift. The same goes for 9 & O. If he was sending you a 599
(which is faster than 5NN in RTTY) the shift was lost and you received a TOO.
The same thing probably happened when he sent OH. Dropped the Letters Shift on
the O and you received a 9.
Aubrey W70LY
On Jan 7, 2014, at 1:12 PM, DickT-W0RAA <dickt@w0raa.com> wrote:
> 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.
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