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<strong>PK</strong>-<strong>232</strong> OPERATING MANUAL<br />
BAUDOT AND ASCII OPERATION<br />
CHAPTER 6<br />
BAUDOT AND ASCII RTTY OPERATION<br />
6.1 Overview<br />
Baudot (pronounced Bod-dough) has been around for many years. The<br />
five bit Baudot/Murray code was the basis of the Western Union Telex<br />
service and Baudot RTTY (Radio TeleTYpe) is still widely used on the<br />
HF amateur bands. The Baudot character set contains the upper-case<br />
letters, the numbers 0-9 and some common punctuation characters.<br />
Because Baudot has only five bits, it is less prone to errors than<br />
seven bit ASCII. Your <strong>PK</strong>-<strong>232</strong> provides Baudot RTTY at all the standard<br />
speeds in use today, including all commercial speeds up to 300 bauds.<br />
ASCII; the American Standard Code for Information Interchange<br />
(pronounced Ask-kee) has been around for nearly 30 years. ASCII is a<br />
7-bit code and was designed to overcome the limitations of the Baudot<br />
character set by including both upper and lower case letters, numbers,<br />
all punctuation as well as many computer control codes. ASCII is not<br />
so popular on the amateur bands, but its operation is almost identical<br />
to Baudot RTTY so we will describe them both in this chapter.<br />
6.2 Where to Operate Baudot and ASCII RTTY<br />
Before you can operate Baudot or ASCII RTTY, you must first know where<br />
the activity is. Most RTTY operation occurs on the 20-meter amateur<br />
between 14.08 and 14.10 MHz. RTTY activity can be found on the other<br />
HF amateur bands as well and is most often located between 80 and 100<br />
KHz up from the bottom of the band as it is on 20 meters.<br />
6.2.1 <strong>PK</strong>-<strong>232</strong> Baudot RTTY Parameter Settings<br />
First you must enter the Baudot mode of the <strong>PK</strong>-<strong>232</strong>.<br />
If you are using a Timewave or AEA PAKRATT program, follow the<br />
instructions in the program manual to enter the Baudot mode.<br />
If you are using a terminal, simply type "BAUDOT" or "BA" from the<br />
Command Mode followed by the key to enter the Baudot mode.<br />
The <strong>PK</strong>-<strong>232</strong> responds by displaying the previous mode:<br />
Opmode<br />
Opmode<br />
was PAcket<br />
now BAudot<br />
Your <strong>PK</strong>-<strong>232</strong>'s front panel will show the CMD and BAUDOT LEDs lit.<br />
The following parameters are the most common settings for HF Baudot<br />
operation. Check the parameters and make sure they are set as follows:<br />
RBAUD 45 (this is the most common amateur speed on HF)<br />
RXREV OFF<br />
TXREV OFF<br />
WIDESHFT OFF<br />
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