[Elecraft] Capital letters on reflector

[Bill Frantz]

Wikipedia is a great resource for computer/communication 
standards. Baudot and its derived code ITA2 have only upper 
case, with two characters LTRS and FIGS to determine whether 
letters or numbers and special characters are being sent. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baudot_code>

RIchard may be thinking of the code used by the IBM 2741 
terminal which has upper and lower case shift codes. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_2741>.

Cheers - Bill AE6JV

On 6/11/13 at 10:28 PM, rpfjeld at embarqmail.com (Richard Fjeld) wrote:

>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.

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