ARRL 10 METER CONTEST

[N1API]

After review, one dupe exists: W1AW/7 in CW.

You know one thing that I forgot to mention while we were talking about contesting. One of my biggest pet peeves is from contesters that use straight key, bugs or paddles to send CW rather than the macros from the contest program is the use of letters in place of numbers.

Example:
A for 1
T for 0
N for 9

So you could be going along and get someone who sends (in code - sound it out)
[Di-di-di-di-dit] [dah-dit] [dah-dit] [dah] [di-dah] [dah-dit] and you get this at 25 to 30 WPM.

They do this to save a few characters but how many times to they get the IMI (?) and keep repeating it until they finally figure out that unsuspecting station wants 019 because he does not know what a 599 "TAN" is, his section, locator, countries state locator? The dah-dit for nine has sort of become standard for the signal report, it's used widely in contesting, DXing and day-to-day signal reporting but the others, well they just throw me off especially in rapid fire exchange.

How does everyone else feel about this? (Especially want to hear from the experienced contesters.)

Al