[RTTY] To dash or not to dash - the bottom line

[Bill, W6WRT]

ORIGINAL MESSAGE:

On Tue, 26 Jan 2010 10:03:16 -0800, Kok Chen <chen at mac.com> wrote:

>
>I don't think there is any receiving system that prints a dash (an  
>exclusively FIGS shift Baudot character) and immediately followed by a  
>Q (an exclusively LTRS shift Baudot character) without some Baudot  
>shift character coming in between (either a LTRS shift, or an implicit  
>LTRS shift caused by a space character when receiving using USOS).

REPLY:

Correct. This whole discussion is only relevant to exchanges that are
numbers only. When the exchange is letters, such as CA, it doesn't
matter whether one uses dashes or not, since the transmitter will
insert a LTRS shift after the dash anyway, and if there is a space
instead of a dash, USOS will insert one too. . 

73, Bill W6WRT