01/12/2003 | AE0Q Some of the big gun stations new to RTTY need to tweak their exchanges, like starting and ending every buffer memory with a CR. Garble run into the call or state is a pain and slows down the rest of us when trying to reply. The two characters saved is nothing compared to the time spent deciphering the exchange before hitting the mouse for the reply!

Also, Baudot is not like ASCII; numbers, dashes and slashes do not have unique codes, they are 'shifted' letters. Don't send a dash between state abbreviations, your PC is sending FIGS, dash, then LTRS characters between each state (really slow and leads to garble). Use spaces between groups of letters, and dashes (no spaces) between groups of numbers.

73 - Glenn -- AE0Q