Hello Dwayne,

Hey no problem for the typo, either way is fine with me. My nickname is not related to sky or ski it's just a word in my language that would translate into nuclear or radio-active man

BTW the examples you gave me look pretty complex in syntax and I'm not sure I'll be able to cope with 'em. Here's what I've done and it gave me something to be happy about, but not quite... I've converted an OCTAL number 023 into a decimal number 19 using the following formula:

W = Octal_Num DIG 0 *(8^2) + Octal_Num DIG 1 *(8^1) + Octal_Num DIG 2 *(8^0)

hoping to be able to send it out with the following code:

Loop:
Dec_Num = W
FOR Bit_Counter = 0 TO 8
IF Dec_Num.8 = 1 THEN
GOSUB Send_One
ELSE
GOSUB Send_Zero
ENDIF
Dec_Num = Dec_Num << 1
NEXT Bit_Counter
GOTO Loop

Everything works just fine if my formula yealds a full 9-bit binary number with MSB 1, however any preceding zeroes get automatically discarted and my loop gets uncomlete binary number (non 9-bit) and yealds gaps. Any ideas how to get around this and get a full 9-bit binary number no matter if it's all zeroes and just one 1 (LSB)? Thanks.

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Sincerest regards,

YZ7REA Vladimir M Skrbic
4N7ATV Repeater Administrator
YU7GHZ Radio Club President