[CW] Signal Corps Morse Writing

Sat Jul 31 15:48:30 EDT 2010

Hello Kate,

Does your local library have a scanner?

73 Henry OZ1uF, Cph./ ex NYC
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Kate Hutton 
  To: CW Reflector 
  Sent: Saturday, July 31, 2010 7:27 PM
  Subject: Re: [CW] Signal Corps Morse Writing

  I have fallen into my own system of printing, where some letters are capital (R, K, etc.) & some are not (e, a, d).  I worked it out just by experimentation, since my typing is horrible.  My code practice buddy thinks it's illegible, but I can read it.

  If I had a scanner, I'd provide examples.

  73 Kate K6HTN

  On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 10:19 AM, Henry Mei'l's <meils at get2net.dk> wrote:

    Thanks for the info David.
    I'll check out the website.
    As I mentioned in an earlier mail on one of these CW related reflectors - I also worked out a sort of personal quick-write, using simplified/streamlined letters and numbers, also using symbos for the most common short words and letter combinations - began to look like a cross between Arabic, Old Norse and ancient Greek! But, why reinvent what others have already developed ;0).

    73 Henry, Cph.
      ----- Original Message ----- 
      From: D.J.J. Ring, Jr. 
      To: CW Reflector 
      Sent: Saturday, July 31, 2010 7:06 PM
      Subject: Re: [CW] Signal Corps Morse Writing

      When I was studying for my 1st class radiotelegraph Morse tests - 25 wpm English and 20 groups per minute of cipher groups, I learned Chancery cursive italic which was a bookhand used in the middle ages by monks who copied the Bible and other books hour after hour.  It was optimized for legibility and speed.

      http://jp29.org/itintro.htm

      I use a simplified version of the script shown here - with some modifications - I put a slash through the zero, and I put a foot on the figure one, and I simplify the capitals removing most of the flourishes - with the strange exception of the capitals of D and R which for some reason got used when I serviced a telegram, those letters being my sine.

      I also searched for the fastest ball pen, I found the Write Bros pen at the time was fastest.  The test I gave was to drag the pen ove paper without pressure and see if it would write.  The Sanford company makes the fastest roller balls these days - uniball, jetstream, vision.  Try one you'll love it.

      The research was worth it - I could NOT write 20 wpm clearly before and the examiner at the FCC told me that I had very good handwriting - and even more importantly, I passed the two Morse receiving tests.  Fortunately for me the FCC allowed me to do the 25 wpm English sending test with a Vibroplex bug.  I did the 20 gpm ciphers with a hand key - but they're much easier because they don't have groups of fast dots like ESE and so forth that are really hard to send fast!

      73

      DR

      David Ring, N1EA
      -30-

      On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 12:13 PM, Henry Mei'l's <meils at get2net.dk> wrote:

        Yes, theSG writing style is  fine for legibility -- but is it optimal if you have to copy at hi speed and don't have a mill at hand?

        73 Henry OZ1uF, Cph.

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