[GreenKeys] Santa Tracking Broadcast

[Ralph Mowery]

One more minor thing to add to this is that when sending the FIGS s or j to
send both of them.  On many machines one is the bell and the opposite is the
'.

For hams the unshift on space is very handy as under bad conditions the LTRS
can be missed and all we get is the shifted FIGS characters.
Two carriage returns are usually sent so the old machines can get back to
the left and not pile up on the right if just one is sent and missed .
Better to have the machine totally over printing a line than beating a hole
in the paper and messing up the roller.

Ralph KU4PT


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Duncan said (in part):
> On USOS - That was originally set up for RTTY, where a fade or 
> interference might cause a LTRS character to get lost. But you never 
> know who has USOS and who doesn't.  So it is best to send FIGS at the 
> beginning of each section of numbers, just to make sure everyone copies 
> it correctly.

Send FIGS before any figures character that is not immediately proceeded by
another figures character, AND send LTRS before the first letter.  That way
people both WITH and WITHOUT USOS will copy correctly.

For example:  [CR][CR][LF][LTRS]K[FIGS]6{LTRS]CCC IS ARRIVING AT [FIGS]7
{LTRS]O[FIGS]'[LTRS]CLOCK [FIGS]73 [FIGS]73 [LTRS]OM[CR][CR][LF]


73
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Jim Walls - K6CCC
jim at k6ccc.org