It is not a rumor. The Navy, at least, is moving to the brave new world of mixed case. Who knows what perversion will be next, probably that communist Unicode stuff.
http://www.dodbuzz.com/2013/06/06/navy-scuttles-all-cap-messages/ wunder K6WRU On Jun 10, 2013, at 8:04 PM, Ron D'Eau Claire wrote: > Interesting! Back in "the day" if one did not have a mill for copying (often > one wasn't available) we hand printed "block letters" -- all caps. Indeed, I > passed my 20 WPM Commercial and Amateur Extra CW tests with them. > > I just assumed that was how it started back in the early days of Morse that > later led to mills and radioteletype printers. > > 73 Ron AC7AC > > -----Original Message----- > > > When I get my messages from MARS I put them through a script which changes > them to all lower case. Even though they knew lower case letters were more > easily read they insisted on all caps because they look more official. Go > figure. > 73, > Kevin. KD5ONS > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html -- Walter Underwood wun...@wunderwood.org ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
