[Boatanchors] [ARC5] [BoatAnchors] P.S. Re: Night of Nights" 426 KC AmericanMorse

[Richard Knoppow]

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426 KC AmericanMorse


> There is a functioning telegraph display at Gettysburg and 
> the participants/reenactors use American Morse. Trying to 
> decipher the Bunnell sounder gave me a headache! Samuel 
> Morse started the development in 1836 and placed in use in 
> 1844 by the time all the mechanical bugs (pun intended) 
> were worked out.
>
> There were also railroad and newspaper codes in use.
>
> The Continental code debuted in Germany in 1848 and with 
> some changes it became the International (ITU) code in 
> 1865
>
> Carl
>
     Carl, by railroad and newspaper codes do you mean a 
separate alphabetic code?  The Navy had a short lived one 
for wireless.  I once knew American Morse and used to talk 
to a retired RR operator every few days using it. This was 
via normal tone. I have a couple of sounders now, one in a 
resonator. They are LOUD.  Telegraph offices must have been 
very noisy places.


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Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles
WB6KBL
dickburk at ix.netcom.com