From: "Mike Dennison" <mike.dennison@rsgb.org.uk>
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Date: Tue, 9 May 2000 18:25:45 +0100
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ON7YD wrote:
> DFCW is still a very experimental mode, so not very standardized yet.
> Generaly accepted is that the higher frequency stands for 'dash' and the
> lower for 'dot'. The frequency shift is dependent on the dot length. For 3
> seconds per dot (that has become a kind of informal standard) a shift of
> 4Hz is used. A 1 second 'gap' is used to separate the elements (dots and
> dashes) within a character, characters are separated by a gap of 1 dot
> length, words by a gap of 2 dot lengths.

Rik,

Have I misunderstood, or are you saying there is a gap between 
each dot and each dash? I thought there was no need to do this as 
the frequency determines whether an element is a dot or dash so a 
dot three times the dot lenght must be three consecutive dots.
Probably me being dumb.


Mike, G3XDV (IO91VT)
http://www.dennison.demon.co.uk/activity.htm