[CW] Morse code for ! and #

[Richard Knoppow]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ken Brown" <ken.d.brown at hawaiiantel.net>
To: <cw at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Saturday, January 04, 2014 12:07 PM
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
>
     "American Telegraph Practice" c.1915 can be found at 
Google Books.  It shows some of the Philips code 
abbreviations used in American Morse. For a capitalized 
letter the combination CX in American Morse was sent 
preceding the letter. However, the method of separating 
these combinations from the message letters is not 
described. However, it appears that the combination (CX) had 
to be sent for each and every capitalized letter.
     The chart is not completely trustworthy, for instance, 
it leaves out the symbol for a comma in Continental Morse. 
Sometime around the late 1920's the combinations for period, 
comma, query and exclamation point were changed around with 
the exclamation point being dropped. I have seen more 
complete combination lists in other books but can't find 
them in the files in this machine, I probably have the 
actual books somewhere and will look.


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Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles
WB6KBL
dickburk at ix.netcom.com