[GreenKeys] Baudot is back baby!

[Michael Katzmann]

Yes, I don't know who wrote this but I suspect it was copied from a
submission by T-mobile. DOGE probably fired the engineers who could have
caught this.

And with the same logic as our retreat from metric conversion, we are the
only country still using imperial weights and measures.

Michael

On Sat, Jul 19, 2025 at 9:31 AM Eric Moore <mooreericnyc at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sorry, I am dumb, I thought ITA-2 was still 5 bit? If we are counting
> start/stop bits, 7.5 or 8.5?
>
> -Eric
>
>
> On Sat, Jul 19, 2025, 7:47 AM Michael Katzmann <vk2bea at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> "FCC Takes First Step to Address Rules for Obsolete Format for TTY"
>>
>> That "obsolete" format is ASCII, not Baudot. The requirement for Baudot
>> remains.
>> ( also in the footnote it says ... "Baudot is a *seven* bit code that
>> operates at a baud rate of 45.5. Id. § 64.601(a)(9)." )
>>
>> https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/FCC-25-35A1.pdf
>>
>>

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