[GreenKeys] Shouting the weather

[Nick England]

That NWS article says something that sounds quite strange to me -
"Punctuation also was limited; for example, an apostrophe would be
represented by a "/" symbol, and a comma was represented by an ellipsis.
Hyphens would cause issues as well."

What font would have those problems? the standard weather font has
different symbols from those listed.
https://www.navy-radio.com/tty/BAUDOT.jpg

Nick England K4NYW
www.navy-radio.com


On Tue, Aug 29, 2023 at 11:41 AM Robert Nickels <ranickels at gmail.com> wrote:

> AP and UPI newswire teletype services are mentioned often but many radio
> and television stations and newspapers had the "weather wire" teletype
> machine sitting alongside.   While the news services also carried
> weather information,  many stations felt it was worth the extra expense
> to get the weather straight from the source, and in real time.    Of
> course, showing off a separate machine dedicated to weather info was a
> good bragging point when it came to impressing potential advertisers in
> farm country.
>
> I knew the mechanical TTYs had been replaced at some point by modern
> technology, but having been away from that world for decades I was
> surprised to learn that it took til 2016 for the weather service to
> finally start using lower case, which by then was interpreted as yelling!
>
> https://vlab.noaa.gov/web/nws-heritage/-/stop-shouting-the-forecast
>
> One thing I can say for sure from working part-time at radio stations
> during my college years is that the ALL CAPS format along with the
> yellow paper we kept the weather wire stocked with made life a bit
> easier for us "rip and readers"...
>
> 73, Bob W9RAN
>
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