[GreenKeys] 2018 RTTY RU to include a "REAL" Teletype award category

[Ralph Mowery]

It is a pain that the computers leave out the cr/lf.

 

I use the crank for the line feed, then punch the cr thing through the big hole in the left side of the 15 printer case.

 

I don’t know why the compute boys don’t add a line or two of code so it will work with the old machines.

About 25 years ago I wrote a simple computer program for an old 8080 processor board.  I had it set so that at 65 characters it would look for a space and automatically output a CR/LF.  At 72 characters it would automatically do the cr/lf if no space was found.

 

 

 

From: greenkeys-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:greenkeys-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Kevin H. Phillips
Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2017 2:45 PM
To: greenkeys at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] 2018 RTTY RU to include a "REAL" Teletype award category

 

Great news!  However, I have a question:  how does anyone using a real machine overcome the fact that the computer geeks usually do not insert CR+LF at the end of their transmissions?  I used a Model 15 in the first RTTY contest I worked and it would end up pounding holes in the paper at the end of a  line because of this.  I also subscribe to the RTTY contesting list and a lot of those folks think that any extraneous characters is a waste of milliseconds.

73

Kevin

W5TTY

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