Ham population stats

On Wed, Feb 16, 2000 at 06:44:14PM +0000, Tony Duell wrote: Well, having an actual use for it makes it a lot easier to remember. My best friend and I learned Morse code in 6th grade so that we could pass notes in class that no one could understand. Naturally that later fizzled, the 7th grade teacher was a ham and the 8th grade teacher was a radio operator 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 *always* wanted to do that, I actually bought a DUP11 years ago for this purpose but never dug up documentation on it until recently. You'd need to build some kind of external clock (PLL really I guess) that synchronized to the bit transitions of AX.25, shouldn't be a very big deal though. 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 202 style TU I built from a kit (hmm, Fletcher TU-1200 maybe, or did I just make that up?) to go with the DUP11 before I dropped the ball. Hmm, any idea how well that really interacts with real TTYs? I thought they used 1.4xxx stop bits or something (really whatever scrap of a rotation is left over after all 5 bits get sampled and before the selector doodad hits the stop again). I suppose you're unlikely to type fast enough on a real TTY to cause framing errors... Anyway the *true* joy of Baudot is that ridiculous keyboard layout, and all that crap with FIGS and LTRS, using a computer would miss some of the wackiness. Geez, I miss my model 19... John Wilson D Bit