[GreenKeys] Baudot to ASCII

[John]

Several of the 90's era TNCs (for packet, WEFAX, etc) would do this 
conversion.

I have used an AEA PK232 TNC to copy ITTY to ASCII. I use an ASR33 with 
the Deramp adapter card (https://deramp.com/tty_adapter.html) as the 
TNC's console, and then set the TNC to receive Baudot. THE AEA TNC has a 
routine to 'autobaud' the console port: connect the console device 
(RS232), do a 'hard reset', type a few *** until the TNC signs on.

Works like a charm - and very 'weird' to see and hear the 33 printing at 
45 Baud.  The TTY equivalent of Farnsworth Spacing. AND - you can punch 
a 1" 8-level tape at the same time, which you can then read back later 
on an ASCII machine at whatever speed it works at.  WuHu!

Cheers

John KB6SCO

Carson City

On 11/19/2021 10:24 AM, Keith Densmore wrote:
> Greetings,
> I have a neat little Brother ascii terminal unit which can do 110 baud.
> I would like to see if I can get it to copy ITTY but I am confused on 
> how to do the speed and 8 bit conversion. I have a Dovetron 1000cr 
> which will do speed conversions but not baudot to ascii. Apparently 
> there was a board for this purpose called a TSD 400  but mine does not 
> have that option.
> So...has anyone been there, done that? First choice would be to do it 
> in software, second choice to do it in hardware.
> Anyone who has an idea, please let me know. I do not have the 
> programming skills to do a conversion table, hopefully something like 
> that already exists.
> Thanks for any help,
> Keith
>