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

Fri Oct 31 16:19:22 EDT 2014

Decades?  Oh, my.  That's a long time, or it used to be!

Listen into the wires!

kob.sdf.org/morsekob/morsekob30/index.htm

Make sure Circuit Closer (the switch on your straight key or bug that
shorts the line closed) is ticked off - that's how you listen as the
circuit is connected, you transmit by breaking the circuit.

Select the Wire Number - 11 is often used for chats - and click
Connect.  Be sure to fill in the Station Name - you might see "FB (Ed
in Fairbanks, Alaska)" or other operators.  The idea is that you're a
dispatcher at a railroad station!

Works on Windows, Mac, Linux - any OS that Java works on!

Wire 123 has 30 wpm American Morse Headlines.

73
DR

73
David N1EA

On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 4:00 PM, abqcooks--- via CW <cw at mailman.qth.net> wrote:
>
> A few decades ago I used to hear an American Morse net weekly on 40m.
> 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.
> 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
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Donald Chester via CW" <cw at mailman.qth.net>
> To: <cw at mailman.qth.net>
> 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
> dickburk at ix.netcom.com
>
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