Subj : Re: ARRL Requests Expande
To   : Ed Vance
From : Holger Granholm
Date : Sun Mar 18 2018 09:44 am

In a message on 03-17-18 Ed Vance said to Holger Granholm:

 HG> In a message on 03-10-18 Ed Vance said to Daryl Stout:

GE Ed,

 HG> According to the information I have, CW (and other digital) signals are
 HG> allowed in any part of the bands assigned to radio amateurs, but phone
 HG> signals are not allowed in the band segments assigned to CW and digital
 HG> modes.

EV> I only said "part of any CW Band" to Daryl because no other Modes
EV> are used there and CW usually isn't used in the phone portion of the
EV> Bands.

Right, but you are alloowed to use CW over the entire band segment
reserved to amateur radio.

EV> When I was using HF RTTY I'd send my Call Sign in CW prior to start
EV> typing on the keyboard. (might had done that on VHF too.)
EV> But didn't ID in CW when I was on VHF Packet Radio.

That has never been a requirement here.

 HG> By turning the Waters electronic keyer I found it quite easy to send
 HG> with my left hand, so when I built the "W7BBX Programmable keyer" I
 HG> equipped it with a second key (manipulator) connector for the other
 HG> hand

EV> I have a BUG but usually I used the J-38 Key.

Of course I have a hand-pump as well but I send faster with a bug.
I have never tried to use a hand-pump with my left hand but probably one
can get used to that too.

BTW, to avoid a mouse arm I have found that the best place for a
computer mouse is at knee or seat height.

 EV>The BandAid graphic is 5 $DB's (219), 5 $B0's (176) and 5 $DB's (219).

I don't know what a BandAid graphic is supposed to look like.

 HG> In Windows it doesn't seem to matter which Alt-key you use.

Well Yes it sometime does. The past week I found out that the code for
the degree sign didn't stick when the right 'Gr' was pressed but
pressing the left Gr key did.

 HG> The Alt 219 comes out as . and Alt 176 as . in the PC8 = ASCII 8 bit
 HG> character table.

EV> Were You able to see the Bandaid image in that message I wrote to
EV> Daryl?

If the character (sign) # is called BandAid I see them.

EV> A few lines above I only see  . (period characters) where You typed
EV> Alt 219 and Alt 176.

EV> When I type Alt 219 here, I see a Solid Block Character.
EV> When I type Alt 176 here, I see a Dotted Block Character.

So do I. Now I type AltGr 219 = Û and AltGr 176 = ° and probably you see
them as you mentioned above.


73 es GN de Sam, OH0NC

aka Holger


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