[GreenKeys] ASCII replacing Baudot

Nick England navy.radio at gmail.com
Tue Dec 10 18:43:55 EST 2024


The German weather reports are still transmitted in Baudot.
https://dxinfocentre.com/ratt.htm

Nick England K4NYW
www.navy-radio.com


On Tue, Dec 10, 2024 at 5:17 PM E. <hanyou at xsmail.com> wrote:

>
> From what I understood during the transition, there’s a bunch of merchant
> ships that still use teletype and receive weather bulletins from NOAA, over
> the air & onto them (makes sense when you think how rough the seas can be
> with those big ships and how nearly indestructible heavy metal can be).  I
> think transmitters along the coasts were still going to keep transmitting
> Baudot via software translation - again, if I remember right - due to
> continued use.
>
>
> > On Dec 10, 2024, at 7:56 AM, John Spigel <w1an.dxusa at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > The US Weather service started replacing all Baudot with ASCII in 2016
> says NOAA. Although difficult to believe anyone would be creating maps with
> the weather typeset until then. It would be interesting to hear more of the
> story. Where would these older machines, 28s presumably or 32s have been
> active? News stations, outposts in AK? Pacific islands. or overseas? Any
> weather service list members?
> >
> >
> https://www.noaa.gov/media-release/national-weather-service-will-stop-using-all-caps-in-its-forecasts
> >
> > 73, John W1AN
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