[RTTY] K or carriage return

Bill, W6WRT dezrat1242 at yahoo.com
Sun Feb 13 20:31:10 PST 2011


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On Sun, 13 Feb 2011 21:02:45 -0500, Al Kozakiewicz
<akozak at hourglass.com> wrote:

>Yes, but a extra space (or CR) adds almost 22 ms to an exchange and, well, those add up, don't they? 

REPLY:

First of all, it's not 22 mS, it's 167 mS, same as any other character,
and second it's not an EXTRA space, it's a space instead of a carriage
return, which is also 167 mS.

Do they add up? Yes, but it's still faster than a request for a repeat.

73, Bill W6WRT


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