To: <ws7i@ewarg.org>,
<rtty@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [RTTY] LSMFT
From: "F.R. Ashley" <gdadx2@clearwire.net>
Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2009 18:22:44 -0500
I was in the USAF, and I had to learn how to "read the holes". We
used to joke with the new guys and tell them to go to the supply room
and get a few boxes of line feeds and carriage returns, hi hi..
73 Buddy WB4M
----- Original Message -----
From: "WS7I" <ws7i@ewarg.org>
To: <rtty@contesting.com>
Sent: Friday, February 06, 2009 5:50 PM
Subject: [RTTY] LSMFT
>A famous RTTY accronym.
>
> Low Space Means Fine Teletype(r)
>
>>From the machine days. Anyone want to buy a hole punch? Useful for fixing
>>tape and correcting errors in the data.
>
> A few punches here and there and volla. BTW I worked in the ARMY with a
> guy who submitted a proposal to stop printing the output on the tape with
> ink. That saved the DOD major bucks, but resulted in all of us having to
> learn "hole reading" an art form not practiced much anymore.
>
>
>
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