[RTTY] RTTY Screwed by FCC?

[Bill Turner]

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On Sun, 15 Oct 2006 12:02:19 -0400, Phil Sussman <psussman at pactor.com>
 wrote:

>Thus CW, which is a two
>bit code, if you will is digital from that point of view.
>
>Phil - N8PS

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If CW is digital, it then follows that dit-dah and dit-dit have the
same numeric value and are therefore the same character. 

Remember, in a digital system, the presence or absence of a bit
represents either one or zero. The length of the bit is irrelevant. CW
and RTTY both have "bits" of different lengths, and that is crucial to
their decoding. Both are analog signals which *can* be processed
digitally, but the original signal is analog.

Bill, W6WRT