[CW] ARRL bad CW Practice

[Richard Knoppow]

    Thank you so much, this is perfect and should answer many 
questions about the symbols in use for many people.

On 4/14/2022 2:18 PM, Darrel wrote:
> Just to reinforce Richard's comment:
> 
> https://www.itu.int/rec/R-REC-M.1677-1-200910-I/
> 
> *ITU  RECOMMENDATION ITU-R M.1677-1*
> *International Morse code**
> *
> Part I, section 4.3:
> *
> A number that includes a fraction shall be transmitted with the
> fraction linked to the whole**number by a single hyphen.**
> 
> 
> *
> Cheers,
>       Darrel, aa7fv.
> 
> 
> On 4/14/2022 13:50, Richard Knoppow wrote:
>>    I was just reminded of a bad practice by W1AW. That is the 
>> failure to use a separation between numbers and fractions. For 
>> instance W1AW sends 7-1/2 WPM as 71/2 WPM. The use of a dash to 
>> separate a number from a fraction is made clear in, for 
>> instance, the 1968 edition of the General Post Office handbook 
>> for radio operators on p.154 and in most other books on 
>> telegraph operating. I think it is well established and goes 
>> back to wire line practice although I have not looked it up. It 
>> makes good sense to use it. The ARRL seems to go its own way 
>> but people are supposed to learn good practice from their 
>> transmissions so this is a fairly serious error.
> 

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Richard Knoppow
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