[Elecraft] Capital letters on reflector

[Walter Underwood]

It is not a rumor. The Navy, at least, is moving to the brave new world of mixed case. Who knows what perversion will be next, probably that communist Unicode stuff.

http://www.dodbuzz.com/2013/06/06/navy-scuttles-all-cap-messages/

wunder
K6WRU

On Jun 10, 2013, at 8:04 PM, Ron D'Eau Claire wrote:

> Interesting! Back in "the day" if one did not have a mill for copying (often
> one wasn't available) we hand printed "block letters" -- all caps. Indeed, I
> passed my 20 WPM Commercial and Amateur Extra CW tests with them. 
> 
> I just assumed that was how it started back in the early days of Morse that
> later led to mills and radioteletype printers. 
> 
> 73 Ron AC7AC
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> 
> 
> When I get my messages from MARS I put them through a script which changes
> them to all lower case.  Even though they knew lower case letters were more
> easily read they insisted on all caps because they look more official.  Go
> figure.
>    73,
>         Kevin.  KD5ONS
> 
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Walter Underwood
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