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

[Bill, W6WRT]

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On Tue, 26 Jan 2010 13:19:08 -0800, Kok Chen <chen at mac.com> wrote:

>
>You reported a received exchange that printed as -QWE-QWE-QWE-QWE.
>
>I can't think of any way that RTTY prints the above mixed shifting (LTRS shifted characters and FIGS shift characters mixed together without any spaces in between) unless extra FIGS and LTRS are intentionally sent.

REPLY:

My mistake. I momentarily forgot that the dash prints as "A" when
incorrectly shifted. My example should have read:
QWEAQWEAQWEAQWE

Sorry for the confusion.

73, Bill W6WRT