On Thu, 01 Nov 2001 23:44:10 +0200, Or Botton wrote: >Someone TELL me this is not some sort of a new encryption standard. >:P > >Daniel Pruitt wrote: >> >> RY RY RY RY RY RY RY RY RY >> RRR DE KG6ALC >> >> On Thu, 01 Nov 2001 09:51:24 -0500 (EST), Thomas Mueller wrote: >> >> > from "cyborg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : >> >> >> cq cq cq cq cq cq cq cq de n4zdu qrzz qrzz ? >> >> > What was that supposed to be? Even rot13 couldn't make sense of >>it. >> >> Have a Goody! >> Dan >> ---This was written by a user of Arachne, New Deal GEOS, and DOS >>on the WWW! >> home http://home.pacbell.net/danlp/index.html >> http://www.breadbox.com >> http://www.drdos.org >> -- Arachne V1.70;rev.3, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/ >
Its the call from a RTTY station to another. That's RadioTeleTYpe. Uses mark and space (very early digital mode GRIN) or on and off hi-low tones to send messages. Early versions were mechanical, later versions and current ones use electronic generation of the tones. The standard is to send a string of the letters "RY" so that the other radio user can tune into your signal. Tuning is very critical in this mode, as the tones MUST be a certain frequency (audio) apart for the system to work at all. Simple explanation. It's actually the same sort of technology as modems use. Regards Mel --from Mel Evans, e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Check out http://www.arachne4dos.freeserve.co.uk for more details and FREE DOWNLOAD of Arachne, the Internet suite, WWW browser and e-mailer that runs in and for DOS! and now LINUX!
