[GreenKeys] The "Low Down" on Bell Ringers

[Richard Knoppow]

    FWIW, there is a code card in _Reference Data for Radio Engineers_ 
4th edition showing the characters or actions associated with the lower 
case characters. Ten systems are shown and, at some point, I wrote in 
the weather symbols. Five of the systems use lower case J, with a note 
that the British Army did not but British standard did.
   Five combinations, including the WX keyboard, use upper case S. None 
show Bell for any two letters. So the AP machines mentioned below must 
have been specials of some sort. I am sure there are other sources of 
code cards (I think I may have downloaded a couple to this machine) so 
there may well be other combinations.

On 4/10/2017 2:20 PM, Jim Haynes wrote:
> And I learned from some archives that the J and S bells were the result
> of AP wanting two different bells, one to ring on the machine and the
> other to ring in an editor's office.  So one rang on the machine and the
> other operated a contact to operate the remote bell.  And somehow after
> the need for this had passed the whole world split into two directions
> for bell on the machine, one using FIGS S and the other using FIGS J.

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Richard Knoppow
1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com
WB6KBL