On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 4:22 PM, Aubrey Mansfield <w7oly@comcast.net> wrote:
>
> Receiving “TOO” instead of “599” is not uncommon. I’ve always thought it was
> because a SHIFT was lost in either transmission or reception.
It is. The OP needs to make sure he has unshift on space (USOS) turned ON.
> If you look at the International Telegraphy Alphabet No. 2 (Baudot-Murray
> code or ITA2) you’ll see that the 5 & T are the same, except for the Letters
> Shift and the Figures Shift. The same goes for 9 & O. If he was sending you
> a 599 (which is faster than 5NN in RTTY) the shift was lost and you
OR ... you can look at the top row of keys on your keyboard. :-)
I know from experience that "FFGIERYWBENCSJKFVHSFI&%^&%SFT726" is the
tail of my callsign without the LTRS.
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Peter Laws | N5UWY | plaws plaws net | Travel by Train!
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