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Larry

Bruce in alaska wrote in news:fast-
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Actually No, it was Baudot, and NOT Morse. Sitor was also considered
NBDP, under the rules, before GMDSS, and was incorporated into GMDSS by
default. I suspect the FCC just lumped all Digital Modes into the GMDSS
Label, and forgot to deal with the older NBDP stuff. I guess I should
call some friends back at HQ, and ask where all this stands today, but
I suspect that they really will not want to go "On the Record" with
any answers at this point.

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Bruce in alaska
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Yes, Baudot. I suppose you also have your share of being bitten by the
loop 110VDC current....hee hee...(c;

60 ma has always put me on my knees....

I still have some reperf tapes around here that are Playboy Vargas Girls
for RTTY. I was very active on RTTY on 20 meter ham radio for years
after Wayne Green W2NSD/1 finally got around the damned ARRL old farts
and got FCC to let us use Baudot at 60 wpm ONLY.

By the way, I was the FIRST ham radio ASCII station on the air 15 seconds
before midnight the day it became legal to transmit ASCII (110 baud)
before we got into packet radio. Our little ASCII misfits DARED venture
up into the 14.100-14.150 "Canadian Phone Band", of the day, on 14.105
Mhz where we had one station in each call area calling CQ ASCII CQ ASCII
for 75 seconds for that first legal minute, a bit of ham radio history.
The packet stations STILL occupy the frequencies above 14.100 Mhz we
blazed a trail into dispite heavy Canadian jamming from irate phone
stations. ARRL used to discourage US hams from using CW or RTTY above
14.100, the only modes we were allowed there. For years, "Network 105"
operated a packet network of 24/7 stations on 14.105 I was also involved
in supporting. We had lots of Canadians on freq by that time like
VE1AMA, Burt who I think is dead, now.

Today you need 10 watts on PSK31 ultra narrow band phase shift keying 31
Hz shift to talk across the planet. Too bad more boat hams aren't on it.
PSK uses the SSB bandwidth carrier freq of 14.070 or 7.070 or 3.570 on
LSB rigs fed two tones from the computer sound card. No extra "boxes"
hams have been paying through the nose for like Pactor, are necessary.
It's all software based and free. WinWarbler will copy 3 PSK stations
simultaneously on an SSB receiver anywhere inside its 3Khz IF
bandwidth...really an incredible feat.

I miss getting zapped. My Model 28 had a short in a selector magnet that
made the frame of the ungrounded machine hot...(c;