[CW] Using American Landline Morse on the Ham Bands

[D.J.J. Ring, Jr.]

Japanese, German, French, Russian Morse codes are "standard" Morse codes -
they're just not the limited 26 alpha character Roman alphabet Morse.

American Morse is another code - C is not identical as it is in the "other"
Morse codes.  Likewise R, Z, X, L, O, C, R, P, J, L, and 0 are not the same
and O, C, R, Z are composed of all dots with a special small space inside
the character to change the rhythm. C, R and S all contain three dots.

As far as I know all Morse codes are legal as long as station identification
is done in International Morse code.  So you can send messages in Landline
Morse but you have to do the identification in International Morse.

DR

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On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 9:32 PM, D. Chester <k4kyv at charter.net> wrote:

> I was recently told by someone who should know that it is prohibited to use
> American landline Morse, or non-standard codes such as the Japanese or
> Russian Morse Code alphabets on the ham bands.
>
> I seem to recall that American Morse has always been  legal and that
> amateurs  had occasionally used it over the air since the beginning, and
> until maybe a few years ago (probably after most of the OTs had gone SK),
> there were even some American Morse nets that met regularly on 80m.
>
> Is this something new that the FCC has sneaked into the rules without a
> formal rulemaking proceeding?  I don't ever recall hearing about any such a
> rulemaking proposal or R&O.
>
> Don k4kyv
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