[RTTY] Cut Numbers Revisited

[Peter Laws]

On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 4:22 PM, Aubrey Mansfield <w7oly at comcast.net> wrote:
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> Receiving “TOO” instead of “599” is not uncommon. I’ve always thought it was because a SHIFT was lost in either transmission or reception.

It is.  The OP needs to make sure he has unshift on space (USOS) turned ON.


> If you look at the International Telegraphy Alphabet No. 2 (Baudot-Murray code or ITA2)  you’ll see that the 5 & T are the same, except for the Letters Shift and the Figures Shift. The same goes for 9 & O.  If he was sending you a 599 (which is faster than 5NN in RTTY) the shift was lost and you

OR ... you can look at the top row of keys on your keyboard.  :-)

I know from experience that "FFGIERYWBENCSJKFVHSFI&%^&%SFT726" is the
tail of my callsign without the LTRS.



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