rjr@mgweed.UUCP (09/27/83)
OK Morse fans, I am working on a code converter and need to know the Morse characters for the following punctuation: Exclamation Quote Apostrophe long dash and short dash Tnx in advance, Bob, K9EUI
glc@akgua.UUCP (g.l. cleveland ) (10/04/83)
Last week, Bob, K9EUI asked about the Morse characters for various
punctuation characters. Since I saw no comment or reply on the
net, I am hoping that someone supplied them. However, on the
off-chance nobody came thru and/or others may be interested, I
quote from the ARRL publication "Learning the Radiotelegraph Code",
copyright 1957 (when Headquarters was still located in Hartford,
Conn.):
SPECIAL SYMBOLS
In transmitting text there of course is a need for code symbols
for punctuation marks and some special procedure signals to
facilitate rapid transmission. The important ones are:
Period didahdidahdidah ._._._
Comma dahdahdididahdah __..__
Question mark dididahdahdidit ..__..
Double dash dahdidididah _..._ (BT)
End of message didahdidahdit ._._. (AR)
End of work didididahdidah ..._._ (SK)
Wait didahdididit ._... (AS)
Invitation to xmit dahdidah _._ (K)
Hyphen dahdididididah _...._
Parentheses dahdidahdahdidah _.__._
Colon dahdahdahdididit ___...
Semicolon dahdidahdidahdit _._._.
Quotes didahdididah ._.._
Error didididididididit ........
Apostrophe didahdahdahdahdit .____.
Fraction Bar dahdididahdit _.._.
Understood didididahdit ..._.
Attention dahdidahdidah _._._
Hope this is useful.
73, Lindsay W4IZI
Lindsay Cleveland (...{ihnp4|mhux?|clyde}!akgua!glc)
AT&T Western Electric/Bell Labs ... Atlanta, Ga
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