DemoTex
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Sat Mar-27-04 07:31 PM
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DU ham radio operators: Morse Code made CNN news tonight. (@) |
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Take heart. Seems that Morse Code is not dead. There is a new character, the @-sign. I read an article about it in the latest issue of QST. I think the Morse character combines "a" and "c" (@ being an "a' wrapped with a "c") to yield dit-dah-dah-dit-dah-dit. I wonder when W1AW code practice transmissions will include the @ sign.
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Narf
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Sat Mar-27-04 07:36 PM
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If the sender has to key in two letters, A & C, why not just key in A & T and eliminate the need for a new symbol? .-.-.
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Sat Mar-27-04 07:49 PM
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2. It's keyed as one symbol |
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No pause between the A & C.
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Sat Mar-27-04 07:58 PM
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3. Ahhhh, I see, said the blind man. |
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Sat Mar-27-04 08:00 PM
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dah - dit dit dit dit - dit dah - dah dit - dah dit dah - dit dit dit!
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DemoTex
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Sat Mar-27-04 08:27 PM
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5. The "@" symbol use must be fairly ubiquitous in CW communications. |
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Edited on Sat Mar-27-04 08:28 PM by DemoTex
Otherwise, I would have thought another prosign would do (A-T or A-C). I have given my e-mail address (but only a Hotmail address in the clear) on PSK-31 a few times, and on my SSB HF nets a couple of times. I have never given it on the air by CW. Let's see, where is that straight key?
73 Mac
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