I was one of those, perhaps sad, individuals who could read Baudot punch 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 of 50 baud non FEC RTTY. I seem to remember throwing out a CW tape reader when I first started work as an RO..
Youd ask me to do it now and I wouldnt have a clue, except the RY perhaps - 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 =
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: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: RE: LF: NON MORSE
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> Dear Mal and others,
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> > Come on Jim, learn the Murray code.
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> Prof. Tony Brooker, who wrote the first compiler compiler and later became Essex University'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 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 became a digit 7 (or a letter U, at taste).
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> They didn't eat quiche in those days.
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> <figs shift> OO*.** OOO.O* <lets shift>
> Chris G4OKW
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