But what did they do in the early days of contesting on the old machines. I
suspect they did not worry about lf, cr, sp , bs ( that's back scrolling )
call grabbing etc. Probably hoping the carriage would not get stuck on the
right margin creating a vertical line up. The good ones probably had the
tape spitting out and started reading ( no ribbion please )that and
logging/staying with it and hoped the alignment stayed in between the tuning
fork.
Must have been a sight with oil "slanging", occasionally smoke , paper jams.
Can of oil on the operating desk.
I have enough problems keeping up with these new calculating machines. Not
sure how I could keep up with pencil/paper log.
Any records/logs out there somewhere for those early years ?
Charles/kk5oq
-----Original Message-----
From: rtty-bounces@contesting.com [mailto:rtty-bounces@contesting.com] On
Behalf Of WS7I
Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 3:20 PM
To: RTTY Reflector; Kok Chen
Subject: Re: [RTTY] Good Observations in RTTY RU
That is a great solution, Chen, the either or method, either fix it or
ignore it for contesting. I like it!
Now if you would just send me a Mac!
---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Kok Chen <chen@mac.com>
Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2009 20:31:05 -0800
>
>On Jan 5, 2009, at 8:10 PM, Jim W7RY wrote:
>
>> Why not simply add ONE carriage return or line feed after your call
>> into your macro?
>
>Because it causes the text with the call sign to jump at the
>recipient's screen just when they are trying to click on it. That is
>why many people recommend no newline at the end of sending call signs
>or at the end of an exchange.
>
>I'd added an option in cocoaModem to ignore all newlines altogether
>(mapping them into spaces on the screen) to get around the problem with
>people sending newlines at inopportune moments.
>
>73
>Chen, W7AY
>
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