Return-Path: Received: from rly-db07.mx.aol.com (rly-db07.mail.aol.com [172.19.130.82]) by air-db04.mail.aol.com (v121_r4.4) with ESMTP id MAILINDB043-ad3495e1a093da; Fri, 02 Jan 2009 08:43:58 -0500 Received: from post.thorcom.com (post.thorcom.com [193.82.116.20]) by rly-db07.mx.aol.com (v121_r4.4) with ESMTP id MAILRELAYINDB071-ad3495e1a093da; Fri, 02 Jan 2009 08:43:39 -0500 Received: from majordom by post.thorcom.com with local (Exim 4.14) id 1LIkJ9-0008CP-0Q for rs_out_1@blacksheep.org; Fri, 02 Jan 2009 13:43:23 +0000 Received: from [83.244.159.144] (helo=relay3.thorcom.net) by post.thorcom.com with esmtp (Exim 4.14) id 1LIkJ8-0008CG-GA for rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org; Fri, 02 Jan 2009 13:43:22 +0000 Received: from blu0-omc1-s34.blu0.hotmail.com ([65.55.116.45]) by relay3.thorcom.net with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1LIkJ7-0000Qa-Hl for rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org; Fri, 02 Jan 2009 13:43:22 +0000 Received: from BLU146-W10 ([65.55.116.8]) by blu0-omc1-s34.blu0.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Fri, 2 Jan 2009 05:43:14 -0800 Message-ID: X-Originating-IP: [117.12.236.188] From: Laurence BY3A-KL1X China To: Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2009 04:43:14 -0900 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <731EB49F88B309428FFDDD2423F810E441C3F4@HERMES4.ds.leeds.ac.uk> References: <008b01c96c2f$03ecc0c0$0301a8c0@mal769a60aa920> <495D1607.7090907@toya.net.pl> <00fa01c96c62$5cb8cea0$0301a8c0@mal769a60aa920> <2F9FFDFE3D6F4010A7014AB15568B004@JimPC> <003d01c96ccb$d5c70280$0301a8c0@mal769a60aa920> <731EB49F88B309428FFDDD2423F810E441C3F4@HERMES4.ds.leeds.ac.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 02 Jan 2009 13:43:14.0598 (UTC) FILETIME=[0F8A8460:01C96CE0] X-Spam-Score: 1.2 (+) X-Spam-Report: autolearn=disabled,HTML_MESSAGE=0.001,SUBJ_ALL_CAPS=1.166 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="_f04b4e47-6fa9-451e-9a25-3c7bdd5a941b_" Subject: RE: LF: NON MORSE X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on post.thorcom.com X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.6 required=5.0 tests=FORGED_HOTMAIL_RCVD, HTML_MESSAGE,SUBJ_ALL_CAPS autolearn=no version=2.63 X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes Sender: owner-rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org Precedence: bulk Reply-To: rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org X-Listname: rsgb_lf_group X-SA-Exim-Rcpt-To: rs_out_1@blacksheep.org X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No; SAEximRunCond expanded to false X-AOL-IP: 193.82.116.20 X-Mailer: Unknown (No Version) --_f04b4e47-6fa9-451e-9a25-3c7bdd5a941b_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I was one of those, perhaps sad, individuals who could read Baudot punch tap= e (from 6S and 6SM tape readers) pretty fast - I could often find typos Id p= unched in the tape before reinserting them in the reader. Oh the days of 50=20= baud non FEC RTTY. I seem to remember throwing out a CW tape reader when I f= irst started work as an RO.. =20 Youd ask me to do it now and I wouldnt have a clue, except the RY perhaps -=20= but people dont seem to lose morse that easily. =20 Long haul pretty good so far and Im seeing DCF39 during Winter daylight over= the path to EU =3D =20 Grabber is running centred 137.777 dot 60 =20 Laurence BY3A-KL1 X Tanggu China G4DMA > Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2009 13:24:24 +0000> From: C.Trayner@leeds.ac.uk> To: rsg= b_lf_group@blacksheep.org> Subject: RE: LF: NON MORSE> > Dear Mal and others= ,> > > > Come on Jim, learn the Murray code.> > > Prof. Tony Brooker, who wr= ote the first compiler compiler and later became Essex University's first Pr= ofessor of Computing, once told me that he used to use Murray's code in his=20= early days. Not on the radio, but for programming, sometimes in absolute bin= ary. He commented that you got to know that if, for instance, the character=20= was a an inverted comma and you wanted to set bit 4 then it became a digit 7= (or a letter U, at taste).> > They didn't eat quiche in those days.> > > OO*.** OOO.O* > Chris G4OKW>=20 _________________________________________________________________ Life on your PC is safer, easier, and more enjoyable with Windows Vista=AE.=20 http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/127032870/direct/01/=3D --_f04b4e47-6fa9-451e-9a25-3c7bdd5a941b_ Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I was one of those, perhaps sad, individuals who could read Baudot punc= h tape (from 6S and 6SM tape readers) pretty fast - I could often find typos= Id punched in the tape before reinserting them in the reader. Oh the days o= f 50 baud non FEC RTTY. I seem to remember throwing out a CW tape reader whe= n I first started work as an RO..
 
Youd ask me to do it now and I wouldnt have a clue, except the RY perhaps -=20= but people dont seem to lose morse that easily.
 
Long haul pretty good so far and Im seeing DCF39 during Winter daylight over= the path to EU =3D
 
Grabber is running centred 137.777 dot 60
 
Laurence BY3A-KL1 X Tanggu China
G4DMA


> Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2009 13:24:24 +0000
> From: C.Trayner@le= eds.ac.uk
> To: rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org
> Subject: RE: LF:=20= NON MORSE
>
> Dear Mal and others,
>
>
> &g= t; Come on Jim, learn the Murray code.
>
>
> Prof. Tony=20= Brooker, who wrote the first compiler compiler and later became Essex Univer= sity's first Professor of Computing, once told me that he used to use Murray= 's code in his early days. Not on the radio, but for programming, sometimes=20= in absolute binary. He commented that you got to know that if, for instance,= the character was a an inverted comma and you wanted to set bit 4 then it b= ecame a digit 7 (or a letter U, at taste).
>
> They didn't eat=20= quiche in those days.
>
>
> <figs shift> OO*.** OO= O.O* <lets shift>
> Chris G4OKW
>


Life= on your PC is safer, easier, and more enjoyable with Windows Vista=AE. Se= e how =3D --_f04b4e47-6fa9-451e-9a25-3c7bdd5a941b_--