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

[Jim Preston]

Susan,

In the RTTY window, click FILE / FONT. However, you will probably have 
to do that every time you start WriteLog.

73,

Jim N6VH


On 2/11/2013 7:26 AM, Susan King wrote:
> 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
>>
>> ________________________________________
>> 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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