[CW] Morse code for ! and #

[Bob Johnson]

I don't know if there is much future trying to standardize new morse
punctuation, but If it were to be done, I have a proposal.

Instead of standardizing # or ! or other codes, consider standardizing
a shift code like they had on the old telexes. Basing shifting on a
normal PC keyboard would give the following punctuation:
shift+3 is #
shift+5 is %
shift+6 is ^
shift+8 is *
shift+, is <
shift+. is >

It would also give a new standard way to produce punctuation that is
not in the international standard even if there are some more or less
accepted codes:
shift+1 is !
shift+4 is $
shift+7 is &
shift+: is ;

Also for existing standardized punctuation that is not commonly used,
there would be an alternate way of expressing the punctuation:
shift+2 is @
shift +9 is (
shift+0 is )
shift+, is "

And of course the code gives the ability to produce upper and lower
case so you could shout in morse if necessary ;-).

Just a thought.

- Bob VE8BOB


On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 12:06 PM, Richard Knoppow
<1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bruce Prior" <n7rr at hotmail.com>
> To: "CW Digest" <cw at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Saturday, January 04, 2014 10:00 AM
> Subject: [CW] Morse code for ! and #
>
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>
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>
> We have a Morse code version of the @ character:
> di-dah-dah-di-dah-dit.
>
> There has been a lot of discussion over the years about the need for the
> exclamation point (!) in International Morse Code and various proposals have
> been made.
>
> It would also be helpful if the number sign (#) could be rendered in Morse
> code as well.  I don't know whether that possibility has ever been
> considered.
>
> I have proposed that # be made a symbol in the International System of
> Units, also called SI or the Metric System.  Here is my proposal:
>
>     The original version of the Continental code had an exclamation point,
> the sign was the same as is now used for the period or full stop: -.-.-. the
> signal used for the period was .. .. ..  At some point around the late
> 1920's the signal period was switched to the one previously used for the
> exclamation point and the latter dropped. The old symbols continue to show
> up in some code charts, notably the one in the book _Reference Data for
> Radio Engineers_ 4th edition. It was long since obsolete then. I don't think
> the hash mark (#) ever had a symbol in International Morse. American Morse
> had a lot of signals from the Philips Code which were not official. It also
> had signals to indicate capitalization, etc. Very old books often include
> these. The convention of 30 for end of message is probably from Philips
> Code. It is carried over as the signal AR which approximates it in
> International Morse. I am not so sure about 73 and 88 but they probably
> pre-date wireless.
>   Philips Code is interesting. I think one edition of the Philips Code is
> available on-line free, not sure of the URL. A system of short hand called
> Speed Writing seems to have been inspired by the Philips Code.  Those of a
> certain age will remember seeing small ads in magazines reading something
> like F U CN RD TS U CN GT A GD JB AS A SEC. A friend of mine actually did
> this, i.e. learned Speed Writing and became an excutive secretary.
>
>
> --
> Richard Knoppow
> Los Angeles
> WB6KBL
> dickburk at ix.netcom.com
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