[RTTY] What causes RTTY with longish character spacing?

[Junior]

Jim,
 I was ragchewing one day with a w7 who was using a K3 in AFSK-D mode who
had similar symptoms.
His sig was strong enough for a good copy. When I listened the signal
actually sounded like it would slow down after he sent a few characters. I
don't think it was really slowing down but it was the time between the space
and shifts that made it sound like it was. I think one of the w8's in the
contest actually types during the test
I was in a qso with an 8p using a K3 in fsk and did not notice it.
And yes the AFSK tones sounded higher than the FSK ones.
I think the learned Mr Kok posted something on here about the K3's in AFSK-D
mode.
73
Charles/kk5oq

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From: rtty-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:rtty-bounces at contesting.com] On
Behalf Of Jim Reisert AD1C
Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 8:27 PM
To: RTTY Reflector
Subject: [RTTY] What causes RTTY with longish character spacing?

Every now and then during a RTTY contest, I hear a station that sounds like
they are typing the characters as they go, such that the letters get printed
more slowly than if they had been sent out automatically (in one "burst").
But the spacing between the letters is too regular for it to be just someone
typing in real-time.

Assuming no one is still using old (pre-computer) hardware, what accounts
for this?

73 - Jim AD1C

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Jim Reisert AD1C, <jjreisert at alum.mit.edu>, http://www.ad1c.us
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