[GreenKeys] Re: GreenKeys Digest, Vol 39, Issue 31

[Ralph Mowery]

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From: "Web Williams" <kr4wm at earthlink.net>
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Sent: Monday, April 30, 2007 1:21 PM
Subject: [GreenKeys] Re: GreenKeys Digest, Vol 39, Issue 31


> I'm just getting back into RTTY after quite some time. I
> always enjoy reading the Greenkeys news though. Yesterday
> evening, I stumbled across a traffic net on 3.587 (I think they
> identified as the Midwest traffic net). Understand that I've
> never participated in an RTTY net, so protocol (any and all)
> is unfamiliar to me. They'd send a bit of readable text, followed
> by a bunch of number and symbols that, as far as I could tell,
> appeared to be encoded/encrypted messages. There was a
> distinct pattern to the numbers, then text would be in the clear
> again. I'm assuming that if I was more active in the net, I would
> be told what all the encrypted stuff was, but I seem to remember
> encrypted messages being illegal... so, what exactly do you think
> they're sending?
>
> 73 all, -Web in Myrtle Beach, SC
>
>
Could you post the 'cripted text'?  Some messages have standard formats and 
use a list of ARL numbers.  This is a published list that allows several 
numbers to stand for a line of text.

This may explain some of it.

http://www.arrl.org/FandES/field/nts-mpg/pdf/MPG104A.pdf