[RTTY] Dash vs space, more beat this to death

[Al Kozakiewicz]

I SHOULD know this.  But. I. Don't.

The space character is in both "character sets", i.e. LTRS and FIGS.  It shouldn't be necessary to send a FIGS character after a space (or LTRS before) when sending a space delimited series of numbers.  UOS would seem to break this - i.e. assume LTRS after a space - but it clearly doesn't.  

The first half of my career dealt a lot with ASCII, so it's intuitive.  I apparently still have a lot to learn about BAUDOT and it's sucessors.  What am I missing?

Al
AB2ZY

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From: RTTY [rtty-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Jay WS7I [ws7ik7tj at gmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2013 11:21 PM
To: rtty at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [RTTY] Dash vs space, more beat this to death

Close only counts in horse shoes and hand ....

How about " 599 QWR 123"  Bet most would still click on the 123. As I
was testing MMTTY, ST-8000, and 2Tone on receive on a number of stations
during the contest (mostly receive) I can assure you that the nearly 5%
plus error rates of RTTY stations is caused by just such errors.  In
fact the software test this morning as I copied stations working P49X on
10 meters was pretty amazing. Early in the morning Ed is weak up here on
my lousy antennas.






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