[KYHAM] KEN TRAINING May 20: Counting for the Check and Message Transmission

[Ron Dodson]

The check of the message as explained last week is the
wordgroup count of the text and text only of any message. 
Do not be afraid or confused by the counting of wordgroups.

If in preparing your message for transmission or in
receiving a message you can become used to copying five
wordgroups to a line of text you will find the check easy to
verify.

Numbers, ciphers or mixed groups of numbers and letters
count as one wordgroup each.

We typically use only an X sent on voice modes as "X RAY" as
our only punctuation in radiograms. An"X RAY" counts as one
wordgroup.

Any telephone number in the text, NOT THE TELEPHONE NUMBER
IN THE ADDRESS, WHICH IS NOT PART OF THE CHECK,  
Counts as three word groups, The area code is
one, the prefix the second and the last four as the third
wordgroup.  Examples of other word group counts are as
follows...

New York City  is 3 wordgroups.
NYC  is one wordgroup. 
Numbers spelled out "FIFTY SIX" count as two wordgroups,

However, numbers sent as numerical digits " 56 ", counts as
one.

The name H  O  Townsend counts as three wordgroups.

Any amateur call, such as KA4MAP counts as one.

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Use prowords in "phone" or voice operations instead of
prosigns in CW, but it is not necessary to name each part of
the message as you send it. 

Let's see how a meassege sent on a voice traffic net would
sound. 

For example, a message would be sent on phone as follows: 

"Number one routine HXGolf W1AW eight Newington Connecticut
one eight three zero zulu July one 

Donald Smith
Figures one six four East Sixth Avenue North 
River City Missouri zero zero seven eight nine
Telephone seven three three four nine six eight Break 

Happy birthday X-ray see you
soon X-ray love 
Break 
Diana 
End of Message Over. 

"End of Message" is followed by "More" if there is another
message to follow, "No More" if it is the only or last
message. Speak clearly using VOX (or pause frequently on
push-to-talk) so that the receiving station can get fills.
Spell phonetically all difficult or unusual words - do not
spell out common words. Do not use CW abbreviations or
Q-signals in phone traffic handling.


Next week, an abbreviated message format.