[GreenKeys] CRLF or not CRLF?

[PJ Bennett]

Maybe I'm missing something here (I've never participated in an RTTY contest
and I don't have an amateur radio license), but isn't the issue of using
"heavy metal" the I/O machine itself and not so much how the data got to it?
Isn't it that they are using the slower, mechanical (classic) I/O machines
and therefore they are limited in how fast they can operate?  

 

If the RTTY contest is for 45.5 baud then regardless of a need to convert it
to 110 ASCII (as I would need to do for my ASR33), the data is still being
received at the slower rate, and the same rate as everyone else.  Adding
CR/LF would slow things down a bit more and it shouldn't matter how these
got added (tube or solid state), just that the heavy metal guys (all of
them) would probably need this.  I would think that the separate contest
category would be for the I/O machines rather than how the data got to them.
Just my perspective on admittedly limited info.  Feel free to correct me if
I missed something.  

 

The contests sound like fun, just not sure I'm ready to get my license and
invest in the extra equipment (transceiver, antenna, etc. - I do have a
couple of TU's) to join one.

 

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PJ Bennett

 

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