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

[Steve Garrison]

Now I’ll throw another monkey wrench into the soup.

 

Henning had originally told me to type a GA for “Go Ahead” when I was ready for the other end to transmit.  Akin to our “Over” in radio speak.  So I have been doing that.  I find it much easier than typing a FIGS + ? LTRS followed by my standard new line sequence of CR CR LF LTRS.  I guess I could let the other end do the new line sequence if they desire.

 

And Henning also advised that when you dial another machine the first thing you enter is FIGS $ to get their answer back followed by your HERE IS (which I have to type manually since I have a USTTY system with no way to have the TTY generate the sequence).  At the end of the conversation it is standard for the calling party to end the connection by sending their HERE IS followed by the FIGS $ (WRU) and then disconnecting.

 

Since we yanks are still small in number, although growing, should I change my GO AHEAD to the European standard?  After all they came first and there are more of them that use yanks.

 

Steve G./N4TTY

 

From: greenkeys-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:greenkeys-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Paul Heller
Sent: Saturday, January 27, 2018 12:32 PM
To: Wa3frp <wa3frp at aol.com>
Cc: greenkeys at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] Western Union Five Level and 1968 ASCII Code Card

 

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 <mailto:greenkeys at mailman.qth.net> > wrote:

 

This is something that every Field Technician had in their wallet.  

 

 

Russ - WA3FRP
wa3frp at aol.com <mailto:wa3frp at aol.com> 

i-Telex 834328 WUTMPAM CHIL

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