[Elecraft] OT: CW Contest logging question
tom armour
wa4ta at hotmail.com
Mon Feb 22 12:15:00 EST 2016
Where do I find the Elecraft Reflector?
It seems to have been lost in the dust.
> To: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
> From: n4zr at contesting.com
> Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2016 08:50:15 -0500
> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] OT: CW Contest logging question
>
> 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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