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

[Susan King]

Speaking totally non-technically, I prefer spaces. I have some tremor in my
mouse hand. When a sequence is hyphen-delimited I sometimes mouse up the
hyphen along with the desired characters. In the heat of the contest I
don't notice those extra hyphens and leave them in my log. The robot,
however, scours my log and tells me to remove the offending hyphens.

I think I'll send a note to WriteLog and ask that the RTTY window use a
larger font.

73, Susan K5DU

On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 3:10 PM, Al Kozakiewicz <akozak at hourglass.com>wrote:

> 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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> Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2013 11:21 PM
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> 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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