[Elecraft] Capital letters on reflector

[Jack Smith]

Technically this was "figures shift" and "letters shift" and was not 
really upper/lower case. FIGS and LTRS may ring a bell.

Letters were the normal A...Z alphabet and figures were numbers 0...9 
and punctuation, etc.

Or if you got into some of the weather machines, many of the normal 
punctuation marks were replaced by symbols for cloud percentage.

Jack K8ZOA

On 6/11/2013 1:28 AM, Richard Fjeld wrote:
> Phil,
>
> You said:  "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."
>
> I'm having a problem with this.  I had a Baudot machine, and as I remember it, we sent either an upper, or a lower, case signal (character) to place the machine at the far end in that case position and it would stay there until we sent a corresponding character to change it back again.  I'm not familiar with ITA Number 2.  Baudot was a five bit code (plus a stop bit) for 32 characters. That was long ago.
>
> Dick, n0ce
>
>    ----- Original Message -----
>    From: Phil Kane
>    To: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
>    Sent: Monday, June 10, 2013 5:21 PM
>    Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Capital letters on reflector
>
>
>    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
>
>    From a Clearing in the Silicon Forest
>    Beaverton (Washington County) Oregon
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