In article , Dave Heil
writes:
Len Over 21 wrote:
In article ,
(William) writes:
There's somewhat the same keyboard lock-out at maximum rate
in the Model 28s and later that are 100 WPM maximums. Few
touch typists can go that fast except in bursts.
That's incorrect, Leonard. Anyone who has spent more than a year
steadily poking tape on a 28 can reasonably be expected to type at or
near the machine's maximum capability.
It's a fact, visible to anyone around a real communications center,
that p-tape is what is used for continuous throughput.
Yep, paper or mylar (for tapes used frequently). Trouble is, someone
has to input that information to the tape without errors. Someone has
to manually assign Message Reference Numbers and (for those who use
them) Message Continuity Numbers. Someone has to look up the routers
for stations infrequently addressed. There's a lot more to this
"continuous throughput" than you've indicated.
Yes...the transmitting distributors do their thing all by themselves.
One racked-up tape will start pushing through as soon as the
other reader finishes...
Sunnuvagun! :-)
Tsk. All the morsemen "know" that they do near-perfect copy
every single time at high rates. :-)
All you mighty macho morsemen can do 100 WPM throughput
for hours and hours continuously... :-)
As with CW circuits, RTTY circuits are subject to receiving errors and
to transmitting errors. Multipath distortion or "echo" can leave an
RTTY circuit useless when the same distortion has little effect on a
morse circuit.
Wow, World's Greatest DXer spouting propagation effects!
Guess that's why all the other radio services abandoned RTTY
and took up morse on-off carrier keying, wasn't it? :-)
Oh, no, wait...it was the other way around!
Sunnuvagun!
Uh...Len? You're not doing much communicating via amateur radio, are
you?
Can't do that legally, World's Greatest DXer. Not on the ham bands.
I'm just as legal as anything on HF in other radio services. :-)
Does the fact that morse remains a popular mode, in wide use by radio
amateurs bother you?
No. Amateurs are the LAST vestige of morsemanship in radio.
If amateurs want to keep on recreating the past over and over again,
then I say "have fun, kiddies." Enjoy.
When you PCTA extra blowhards start spouting all the BS about
morsemanship is "necessary" to operate...other than the legal
requirement...on HF, then it's time to send a good old raspberry
to those stuffed-shirt, self-important, olde-tymers who don't have
much but morsemanship to be proud of...
All those amateur morseaholics aren't taking any test when they
are busy keying. What is at stake is whether or not a morse test
has any validity for any amateur radio license test. The FCC doesn't
think so, didn't think so several years ago.
But, big World's Greatest DXer, you aren't pleased with that answer,
are you? You will go right ahead with your "not licensed" schtick
and do personal attacks against any NCTA...because that is the
way you are...another representative of the PCTA olde-fahrts who
demand that all have to endure the test YOU had to do long ago.
Sunnuvagun!