[MRCG] RTTY net

[Mark J. Blair]

On Jul 27, 2014, at 11:45 , Tim <timsamm at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Mark (or is it Space)

Sadly, Mark is not high. :)

> I'll send you the file...I am not that familiar with the workings of
> mechanical terminals etc but I thought "diddles" were sent by the
> transmitting station to "maintain sync" when no information was being
> sent.  I dunno.  Much for me to learn...

I believe you're correct. The diddles are just repeated LTRS (letters shift) characters. I suppose they'll make mechanical TTYs clunk away madly while the old fart on the other end hunts around for the next key to press, rather than sitting there in a quiet and dignified manner. The text should still come out right, but it'll clatter away like the loop is open. I guess I'll just have to apologize for making noise in everybody's shacks until I can downgrade from fldigi to a proper GRC-26D set!


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Mark J. Blair, NF6X <nf6x at nf6x.net>
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