10 Feb
2017
10 Feb
'17
4:29 a.m.
On Thu, 9 Feb 2017, Ron Natalie wrote:
Amusingly, we though the HERE IS key was just to
generate leaders
because none of our teletypes had the drum programmed. Later I found
out that you could break the tabs on the drum and have HERE IS send a
short string of characters. ^E (called ENQ or sometimes WRU ...for who
are you) triggers this to be sent in response.
Quite common in the Amateur RTTY (radio teletype) world.
--
Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will
suffer."