[Elecraft] Capital letters on reflector

[Eric Swartz - WA6HHQ, Elecraft]

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Eric
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On 6/11/2013 2:40 PM, Jim Lowman wrote:
> Same goes for those of us who programmed IBM mainframes.
>
> All caps don't bother me for that reason.  However, I understand that 
> it does bother some people, so I avoid it.
> What bothers me more is "textspeak," especially failure to use mixed 
> case.  Not capitalizing the letter 'i' when used as a pronoun is 
> irritating.
>
> 73 de Jim - AD6CW
>
> On 6/10/2013 3:21 PM, Phil Kane wrote:
>> 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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