[Elecraft] OT: CW Contest logging question

[Pete Smith N4ZR]

Can this thread please go back to CQ-Contest where it (unfortunately) 
belongs?

73, Pete N4ZR
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On 2/22/2016 1:02 AM, Jim Brown wrote:
> On Sun,2/21/2016 9:00 PM, Chester Alderman wrote:
>>   I did go into my log and converted the 'NN' to 99;
>
> Back when I was learning CW and ham radio, I was taught to copy what 
> is sent. I still do that, and that's what goes in my log. If he sends 
> ATT, I log ATT. If he sends 1K, or 1KW, that's what i log. If he sends 
> NN, I log NN. When I'm copying JAs, I make allowances for language 
> when he sends 1oo and log 100. Several years ago, a lot of JAs were 
> getting really strange with cut numbers for power, and I refused the Q 
> if they wouldn't send me real numbers. Thankfully they have gotten the 
> word.
>
> Cut numbers are for lids. I put up with ENN for 599, because the 
> report is an anachronistic placeholder. But the structure of Morse 
> numbers provides some redundancy (in the form of spacing) to reduce 
> errors, and I refuse to give up that redundancy. I'm the one who gets 
> dinged if I copy his exchange wrong.
>
> 73, Jim K9YC
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