03-18-18 09:44 Holger Granholm wrote to Ed Vance about Re: ARRL Requests   
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    HG> @MSGID: <5AAF8A4D.1811.amtradio@capitolcityonline.net>   
    HG> In a message on 03-17-18 Ed Vance said to Holger Granholm:   
      
    HG> In a message on 03-10-18 Ed Vance said to Daryl Stout:   
      
    HG> GE Ed,   
   GE Holger,   
      
    HG> According to the information I have, CW (and other digital) signals are   
    HG> allowed in any part of the bands assigned to radio amateurs, but phone   
    HG> signals are not allowed in the band segments assigned to CW and digital   
    HG> modes.   
      
    EV> I only said "part of any CW Band" to Daryl because no other Modes   
    EV> are used there and CW usually isn't used in the phone portion of the   
    EV> Bands.   
      
    HG> Right, but you are alloowed to use CW over the entire band segment   
    HG> reserved to amateur radio.   
      
   DIT DAH DIT   
      
    EV> When I was using HF RTTY I'd send my Call Sign in CW prior to start   
    EV> typing on the keyboard. (might had done that on VHF too.)   
    EV> But didn't ID in CW when I was on VHF Packet Radio.   
      
    HG> That has never been a requirement here.   
      
   Back then (late 1970's) I used that method of ID'ing because I thought I   
   had see mention of it in something that I read.   
      
   -snip-   
      
    HG> BTW, to avoid a mouse arm I have found that the best place for a   
    HG> computer mouse is at knee or seat height.   
      
   The Mouse is on my desk and my arm sometimes aches when using it a long   
   time.   
      
   I'm wondering if anyone makes a Clipboard with a Leg Clamp attached to it?   
   Long a friend of mine, Bruce WA4DYL worked CW /M while driving his car   
   using a J-38 clipped to his leg.   
      
    EV>The BandAid graphic is 5 $DB's (219), 5 $B0's (176) and 5 $DB's (219).   
      
    HG> I don't know what a BandAid graphic is supposed to look like.   
      
    HG> In Windows it doesn't seem to matter which Alt-key you use.   
      
    HG> Well Yes it sometime does. The past week I found out that the code for   
    HG> the degree sign didn't stick when the right 'Gr' was pressed but   
    HG> pressing the left Gr key did.   
      
    HG> The Alt 219 comes out as . and Alt 176 as . in the PC8 = ASCII 8 bit   
    HG> character table.   
      
    EV> Were You able to see the Bandaid image in that message I wrote to   
    EV> Daryl?   
      
    HG> If the character (sign) # is called BandAid I see them.   
      
   # isn't the character either of the ALT Characters shows here when I   
   added the Tagline or tried typing them in a message.   
      
    EV> A few lines above I only see  . (period characters) where You typed   
    EV> Alt 219 and Alt 176.   
      
    EV> When I type Alt 219 here, I see a Solid Block Character.   
    EV> When I type Alt 176 here, I see a Dotted Block Character.   
      
    HG> So do I. Now I type AltGr 219 = . and AltGr 176 = . and probably you   
    HG> see them as you mentioned above.   
      
   Nope, just Period characters.   
      
   73 de Ed W9ODR  .                            .   
      
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