[CW] Reading Baudot

[Bob Wilder]

Yep, reading baudot tape became easy when you worked with it every day.  I got real good at it while an operator at Memphis (JESUP) out of the Maxwell Switching Center years ago.  Used to check the  tape before putting it in the TD for transmission.



At 12:26 PM 8/21/2004 -0400, N7DC at cs.com wrote:

>I, at one point, could read baudot tape almost 100 percent.  Thats back when 
>that was all a dealt with, on almost a day-to-day basis.  I also could pick up 
>my and the base stations call signs, when I was an embassy communicator.  The 
>RYRYRY was used simply to insure the TD (transmitter Distributer) was working 
>on all pistons.  R put together with Y, insures that each hole passes the 
>reader and is properly transmitting since one of them has holes 1/3/5 and the 
>other 2/4 .  The space character was also easy to pick up, when there were 
>several put together.   
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