[MRCG] RTTY net

[Tim]

Ha!  Well I am NOT advocating we all fire up riceboxes and computers -
that's too easy - (but it works great - just don't tell anyone!  LOL) -
anything worth doing is worth doing the HARD way!

I think there is a website that sends 100 wpm (?) baudot files 24/7 that
can be used for fiddling with demodulators and terminals.  Maybe on
Greenkeys, I forget.
I was up on some of this stuff 15 years ago but my memory takes an
exponential plunge if I don't play with it constantly....And now I am
trying to find my car keys....


On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 11:53 AM, Mark J. Blair <nf6x at nf6x.net> wrote:

>
> 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!
>
>
> --
> Mark J. Blair, NF6X <nf6x at nf6x.net>
> http://www.nf6x.net/
>
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