[RTTY] CQ vs. S&P for RTTY Round-UP - Figures/Letters shift

[Jerry Flanders]

At 16:13 1/9/2006, Dick Kriss, AA5VU wrote:
>...
>Ps: I copied the following report and have no idea what the guy was trying
>to say to N0LP.
>
>  N0LP 599 -4 -4 (.5FY
>
>I got the same junkie report from the station and did not bother to log the
>call.  Some things are just too hard.

Somebody missed a shift from figures to letters case after the 599. 
He probably sent N0LP 599 AR AR KN with the remaining "5FY" just junk.

If this doesn't make sense, just remember that each of the 32 valid 
codes in the Baudot system gets double duty - the character 00011, 
for instance decodes to "A" in the letters case or "-" in the figures case.

See http://eserver.bell.ac.uk/mirrors/dc100www/dc_009.htm#baudot
for a full conversion table.

Your computer can automatically do the unshift from figures to 
letters for you when a space occurs - the feature is called "USOS" 
(UnShift On Space).


Jerry W4UK