Ham population stats

From: Shawn T. Rutledge <rutledge_at_cx47646-a.phnx1.az.home.com>
Date: Wed Feb 16 16:58:24 2000

On Wed, Feb 16, 2000 at 04:31:35PM -0500, John Wilson wrote:
> in the Norwegian underground in WW2, so much for that idea! But learning
> Morse code is a lot easier than memorizing the ASCII table, there are way
> fewer characters...

I haven't done that either, just remember that A is dec. 65 and CR/LF
is 0d0a (but I can't remember which is which)... in spite of having written
programs more or less continuously since 1986, I still need an ASCII chart
sometimes.
>
> Stupid question: what comes out of the other side of a ham TNC these days?
> It used to be Bell 202 modem tones at 1200 baud HDX, over an FM voice signal,
> it *can't* still be that easy though can it? Some place I still have the

Yeah 1200 baud AFSK hasn't changed but there are many new methods of
doing more-reliable data transfer on HF and also faster speeds on other
frequencies.

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