[GreenKeys] GreenKeys Digest, Vol 108, Issue 65

[John Nagle]

On 1/26/2013 1:07 PM, greenkeys-request at mailman.qth.net wrote:
> ----Original Message-----
> From: Wa3frp <wa3frp at aol.com>
> To: coryheisterkamp <coryheisterkamp at gmail.com>
> Cc: greenkeys <greenkeys at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Sat, Jan 26, 2013 12:32 pm
> Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] [Greenkeys} Saturday Pix
> 
>> >Now I've been receiving these pics on my M32 which was a Telex machine, and
>> >I've been meaning to ask the group- Are there any characters that were
>> >coded differently due to keyboard location for Telex than "regular" Baudot?
>  
>  
> Hi Cory, 
>  
> There are three big differences.
>  
> 1. FIGS-J is Bell in the International Telex system while hams and the US use FIGS-S for Bell.
>  
> So, you may hear "bells" instead of receiving the apostrophe ( ' ).  
>  
> 2. Telex uses FIGS-D for the answerback request or who-are-you command and you will probably print a German cross
> instead of the dollar sign ( $ ) that a ham machine will normally print.
>  
> 3. You will find that FIGS-F is dollar sign ( $ ) on a Telex machine while most hams have FIGS-F set up as 
> an exclamation point ( ! ).

   For the Model 14/15 era, here are the tables, from the original
documents.

	http://aetherltd.com/ttyfonts.html

					John Nagle