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Re:Codebreaker Cracks 135 Year Old Message [video] by nneonneo on Tuesday January 02, 2024 @01:10AM (#38838676)
You're not free to supply whatever letters you want - the words are specifically prescribed. The dew point indicator words are on page 41 of the handbook linked by the parent.

I'm not sure why the dewpoint indicators had to be arbitrary, rather than using the same scheme. Maybe it was a way of providing some robustness because fields could occupy variable numbers of words, so an identifiable dew-point word would help to mark a specific field in the report.

Re:Codebreaker Cracks 135 Year Old Message [video] by thaumasiotes on Tuesday January 02, 2024 @01:59AM (#38838952)
> The dew point indicator words are on page 41 of the handbook linked by the parent.

My mistake. Pages 20-30 are all blank; I figured that was the end of the document.