[Elecraft] Capital letters on reflector
Ron D'Eau Claire
ron at cobi.biz
Mon Jun 10 18:35:31 EDT 2013
True, Phil, but IMX teleprinters used a sans-serif typeface (e.g. Arial or
Helvetica for the computer crowd ;-), just like the mills (all upper case
typewriters) we used to copy CW.
Maybe it's that experience, but I find typical serif fonts such as Times
much harder to read in all caps.
73 Ron AC7AC
-----Original Message-----
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
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