[CW] American Morse Illegal on the Ham Bands?

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

If I remember correctly, at the time what came to be International Morse
code was called "Continental Morse Code" and was used on International
cables and landlines in Europe.

The letter S is identical in American and Continental Code.

The character for period early on was .. .. .. that is dot-dot
dot-dot dot-dot which if you weren't familiar with that character, you
might write down, III, but it was really just . (period).

I remember somewhere in the Society of Wireless Pioneers "Sparks Journal"
there is a great story by Donald De Neuf about his sending a telegram to a
station in Japan who did not know what III was when he copied the message,
so it was sent to the home shipping company office as III which puzzled
them!

73
David N1EA

On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 3:15 AM, Stan Barr <g0clv at dsl.pipex.com> wrote:

> On 21/05/13 06:47, Richard Knoppow wrote:
>
>
>>      Now, since Marconi was European what kind of code did he use?
>>
>
> International Morse, I think.  European telegraph code was different
> from American Morse anyway.
>
>
> --
> Cheers and 73,
> Stan Barr G0CLV GQRP-3369 FISTS-667  g0clv at dsl.pipex.com
>
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