[GreenKeys] Western Union Five Level and 1968 ASCII Code Card

[Paul Heller]

Thanks for sharing, Russ. This explains a lot of information in one place. 

When I first started my ITTY system here in Arvada, I learned that the Europeans were not happy with ITTY because it was transmitting incorrect codes. I wrestled with this for a long time until I figured out what codes were appropriate and what were not. In particular, the $ was a no-no because it was sending a FIGS-D which is WRU in Telex! It would drive their machines mad. Henning helped me solve all the problems for the Europe channel, which transmits TELEX at 66WPM. 

I was aware that one could put a 60WPM gear in the 32 to operate it on RTTY. That must be a challenge when the other party types a $ in the conversation!

I remain confused about two things.  

First, the TELEX convention of +? when you want to turn over conversation to the other person. I figured it was only my 32 which could not generate the +, but I see + is not even in the WU TELEX standard.  Was the TELEX code different in Europe?


Second, my 32 has a funny keyboard with alternate value show, but not active, for some of the keys. For example, FIGS-Z can be “ or +; FIGS-V can be ; or =;   Not sure what the = sign is all about because it is not on that chart anywhere!


Paul
W2TTY
i-Telex: 80003

ITTY:  		HTTP://INTERNET-TTY.NET:8000/ITTY
AUTOSTART:  HTTP://INTERNET-TTY.NET:8030/AUTOSTART
EUROPE: 	HTTP://INTERNET-TTY.NET:8040/EUROPE


> On Jan 26, 2018, at 9:13 PM, Wa3frp via GreenKeys <greenkeys at mailman.qth.net> wrote:
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> This is something that every Field Technician had in their wallet. 
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