[RTTY] RTTY WAS
Bill Turner
dezrat1242 at ispwest.com
Mon Aug 1 10:58:13 EDT 2005
At 06:44 AM 7/31/2005, Shelby Summerville wrote:
>Now that the designation "digital", instead of RTTY has been placed on the
>WAS certificate, I've lost interest in applying for it.
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That is especially ironic since RTTY is not a true 'digital' mode. The bits
in a Baudot character do not stand for ones and zeros, and the stop bit is
identified by being longer than the others - a no-no in the digital world.
RTTY is commonly processed by a digital computer, but the Baudot character
set itself is purely analog. Ask any user of a mechanical printer.
However, the use of 'digital' to describe RTTY is so common I realize I'm
swimming against the tide and hereby surrender. :-)
Bill, W6WRT
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