[Elecraft] Capital letters on reflector

[Phil Kane]

On 6/10/2013 12:41 PM, Brendon Whateley wrote:

> There are two reasons that all caps bother people.  The first is
> internet convention where words in all CAPS are considered to be LOUD
> or SHOUTING.  That means all caps emails are seen as yelling at the
> reader by most.

Sometimes the writer wants to "speak loudly"....

> The second is much more important, and that is that all caps is much
> more difficult to read.  It removes many visual clues that people use
> to read quickly.  

Those of us who started in the "telecom" business with classic
teleprinters are very used to reading upper case only.  Even into today,
HF marine safety and press bulletins and traffic are transmitted in
upper case because Baudot and SITOR RTTY use International Telegraph
Alphabet Number 2 which does not have lower case.

Those of us who are fluent in languages that do not use "Latin"
characters are comfortable with a single-case alphabet.

73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane
Elecraft K2/100   s/n 5402