[GreenKeys] Survey

[jhhaynes at earthlink.net]

Same here.  With radio noise you often get a false shift into FIGS, and
USOS at least brings you back to LTRS pretty soon.

Funny thing is, in the early days of RTTY the experts always told you
to disable USOS if you had it.  I guess the reason was that lots of
old machines couldn't do it, so they wanted you not use it and then
mess up copy on those machines.

Of course the correct protocol, and this should apply to pictures and
everything else, is to assume you don't know what is at the other end,
so send LTRS before or after a space when you want to be in LTRS, and
send FIGS after a space if you want to stay in FIGS.

USOS was a feature originally put in at the request of the press people.
Somebody had counted how many keystrokes they would save if they didn't
have to send LTRS after every period and comma and number.  So most of
the machines you see in the field have the USOS feature with some means
of disabling it, like the latch in front of the Model 15 and the screw
in the top of the stunt box in the Model 28.

On Sat, 3 Nov 2007, WB6BLV  Central California wrote:

> the plot thickens... I ALWAYS run 'unshift on space' to avoid 'jumble' if a
> LTRS is missed... anybody else follow this habit?
>