[CW] Morse code for ! and #

[Joe K2UF]

In the early 60s when I was in the army I was stationed in southern Florida.
We were copying the Russians during the Cuban missle crisis ( you may have
learned about it in your history classes ;o)  ).

The Russian CW ops had two additional characters.  

They were:
 DAH DAH DAH DAH we copied as  #  or  & ( I can't remember,  long time ago)

 DIT DIT DAH DAH we copied as  ?

It only took a couple of days to add these to your morse brain.

73  Joe K2UF

  

-----Original Message-----
From: cw-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:cw-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On
Behalf Of Ken Brown
Sent: Saturday, January 04, 2014 3:07 PM
To: cw at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [CW] Morse code for ! and #


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

Is there already a Morse character to indicate shift? If so what is it?
If not, what would you propose?
Would there be a single character for shift, that would apply only to one
following character,
or would there be a shift and un-shift sort of like LTRS and FIGS on a TTY
machine?

Seems like the only combinations of dits and dahs that are not already
defined are pretty long.

DE N6KB


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