[CW] Morse code for ! and #

[Bob Johnson]

Ken,

It's hard to say. If the intent was only to use it very occasionally,
a long character would be fine. For example, the second code  proposed
by David Ring:
STARTING SIGNAL: DAH-DI-DAH-DI-DAH
If there was an expectation of a lot of use in some contexts, I would
look for a shorter character. A good candidate is the is the other one
David Ring suggested:
UNDERSTOOD:  DI-DI-DI-DAH-DIT.
Note that both these codes are International standard symbols that are
not currently used by hams. They would also have the advantage that
they should not be used in other accented or non-English extensions.

If the intent is only to use this code for the occasional single
punctuation, a shift code for a single character should suffice. If
you wanted to yell a lot, maybe a Caps-Lock would be needed.

It may not sound like there is much use for shift and upper case, but
you know there was an April Fools posting about Google providing a
morse keyboard for cell phones. It got me thinking that maybe there
would be a future for that with hams. And of course, you couldn't have
morse texting without morse emoticons ;-).

- Bob VE8BOB


On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 1:07 PM, Ken Brown <ken.d.brown at hawaiiantel.net> wrote:
>
>> 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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