Technically this was "figures shift" and "letters shift" and was not
really upper/lower case. FIGS and LTRS may ring a bell.
Letters were the normal A...Z alphabet and figures were numbers 0...9
and punctuation, etc.
Or if you got into some of the weather machines, many of the normal
punctuation marks were replaced by symbols for cloud percentage.
Jack K8ZOA
On 6/11/2013 1:28 AM, Richard Fjeld wrote:
Phil,
You said: "Even into today, HF marine safety and press bulletins and traffic
are transmitted in
upper case because Baudot and SITOR RTTY use International Telegraph
Alphabet Number 2 which does not have lower case."
I'm having a problem with this. I had a Baudot machine, and as I remember it,
we sent either an upper, or a lower, case signal (character) to place the
machine at the far end in that case position and it would stay there until we
sent a corresponding character to change it back again. I'm not familiar with
ITA Number 2. Baudot was a five bit code (plus a stop bit) for 32 characters.
That was long ago.
Dick, n0ce
----- Original Message -----
From: Phil Kane
To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net
Sent: Monday, June 10, 2013 5:21 PM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Capital letters on reflector
On 6/10/2013 12:41 PM, Brendon Whateley wrote:
> There are two reasons that all caps bother people. The first is
> internet convention where words in all CAPS are considered to be LOUD
> or SHOUTING. That means all caps emails are seen as yelling at the
> reader by most.
Sometimes the writer wants to "speak loudly"....
> The second is much more important, and that is that all caps is much
> more difficult to read. It removes many visual clues that people use
> to read quickly.
Those of us who started in the "telecom" business with classic
teleprinters are very used to reading upper case only. Even into today,
HF marine safety and press bulletins and traffic are transmitted in
upper case because Baudot and SITOR RTTY use International Telegraph
Alphabet Number 2 which does not have lower case.
Those of us who are fluent in languages that do not use "Latin"
characters are comfortable with a single-case alphabet.
73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane
Elecraft K2/100 s/n 5402
From a Clearing in the Silicon Forest
Beaverton (Washington County) Oregon
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