[RTTY] K or carriage return

[Al Kozakiewicz]

Apparently the string of wink emoticons was lost on you.  Sheesh....

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From: rtty-bounces at contesting.com [rtty-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Bill, W6WRT [dezrat1242 at yahoo.com]
Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2011 11:31 PM
To: rtty at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [RTTY] K or carriage return

ORIGINAL MESSAGE:

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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