[GreenKeys] Hot Line, and USSR teleprinter nomenclature, etc

[WF2U]

I mistyped the original message: of course it's a 5 level machine. I should
have proofread my message before sending it. The spell checker doesn't care
about a finger slipping to the wrong numeral...

73, Meir WF2U / NNN0AAF
Landrum, SC

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Don Robert House [mailto:drhouse at nadcomm.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 3:40 PM
> To: Gregory W. Moore
> Cc: wf2u at starband.net; GreenKeys at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] Hot Line, and USSR teleprinter nomenclature,
> etc
>
>
> Friends,
>
> Greg likes to type.  My fingers are too messed up with arthritis.
> You may be correct about the machine being 6 level but the punch in
> the photograph shows a small feed hole punch with one side having two
> levels and the other side having three.  My friends told me that
> these type of machines used a special double shift to create the
> extra characters which you get some indication of by the length of
> the type pallets on the ends of the typebars.   They are long enough
> for three characters apiece.
>
> A model 20 is a 6 level machine but uses the extra level for upper
> and lower case.  Baudot was the world-wide standard, so I still think
> Baudot code was used twice over for Latin and three times for Cyrillic.
>
> Don
> K9TTY
>
>