[CW] Charts of Radio Morse and American Wire Morse.

[abqcooks--- via CW]

A few decades ago I used to hear an American Morse net weekly on 40m. 
<font size="3">Don't hear any on radio anymore but it's alive and well on the internet which now serves as "the wire".  Check out the Morse Telegraph Club website for info. </font>
<font size="3">It's easy to interface a key and sounder to your computer.  Learning to copy American on the sounder takes some time....but jump in....there are still ops to talk to on the " wire".  Jim
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From: "Donald Chester via CW" <<a href="mailto:cw at mailman.qth.net">cw at mailman.qth.net</a>>
To: <<a href="mailto:cw at mailman.qth.net">cw at mailman.qth.net</a>>
Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2014 10:28 PM
Subject: Re: [CW] Charts of Radio Morse and American Wire 
Morse.


> There used to be, and maybe still is if any members are 
> still kicking, a
> group of  hams who practised American landline Morse in a 
> net on 80m.
> Probably old time railway operators. As I recall, they 
> ID'ed in
> International Morse, but carried on their net in American 
> Morse.
>
> Johnny Johnston, who had retired from the FCC and who is 
> well known by the
> AM phone community as the guy who instigated a steady 
> stream of RM proposals
> during his 25-year tenure that would have severely 
> restricted amateur AM or
> eliminated it altogether, claimed in an article he wrote 
> that American Morse
> is illegal to use on the ham bands because, according to 
> the Part 97 rules,
> CW is defined as "on and off keying, using International 
> Morse code". He
> claimed it was illegal to transmit American Morse because 
> it does not fit
> the FCC's definition of CW.
>
> The president of a telegrapher-hobbyist club contacted the 
> FCC regarding the
> article. They basically told him to ignore that guy 
> because he no longer
> works for the FCC and no longer has any say over what is 
> legal on the ham
> bands.  I talked to one of the  guys in the club at Dayton 
> and exchanged
> e-mails with another member and that's what they told me. 
> Pretty  sad... the
> guy tried his best to screw over a group of hams while he 
> was at the FCC,
> and once he retired, was still at it, trying to screw over 
> another group of
> hams.
>
> There is enough similarity between the codes that one 
> probably  could follow
> the gist of the conversation if one knew only the other 
> code, kind of like
> someone who speaks Spanish  can get the gist of a 
> conversation in Italian
> and vice versa.  I was surprised how easily I could 
> understand regular
> International Morse when transmitted to an old fashioned 
> land-line sounder
> during a demonstration. I don't know if I could decipher 
> much of a message
> in American Morse transmitted to a sounder, though.
>
>
> 73,
> Don k4kyv
>
      Many years ago I worked American Morse with an old 
time railroad operator. I doubt if I could read it now, at 
least without considerable practice, although its really not 
very much different than Continental Morse.  Reading either 
from a sounder is something else. I have a few sounders and 
have run them from a tape transmitter using Continental 
Morse. Its like learning Morse all over again but that's 
just me and my hearing is not what it used to be. A sounder 
in a resonator is LOUD!  Makes you wonder what a large 
telegraph office must have sounded like.
      As far as the legality I am not so certain that any 
code that is not a cipher is illegal provided stations are 
identified correctly. What ever this guy says it would take 
an attempted prosecution and court case to determine what 
the law really is. The FCC makes _rules_ but those can be 
challenged in court.
      BTW, if this is the fellow who created the power limit 
rule for AM he is just out of it. I don't know if that 
definition of AM power has ever been challenged legally but 
it should be because it doesn't make any sense.


--
Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles
WB6KBL
<a href="mailto:dickburk at ix.netcom.com">dickburk at ix.netcom.com</a> 

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