[CW] List of prosigns

[spud roscoe]

Sable Island went on as SB in 1905 then changed to SD when Cape Sable went on. It was MSD  when the Marconi call received the M prefix in January 1908. It became VCT when Canada received the V prefix in memory of Queen Victoria from the London Radio Convention of 1912.

It must have been something with their primitive equipment to sort out SB or SD when called with any static around.

73
Spud VE1BC



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Sent: Sunday, August 11, 2019 9:59:59 PM
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Subject: Re: [CW] List of prosigns

Yes, it did, Hans!

There is a similar story in this book that I particularly liked was a fiction book loosely based on the author's experience on Sable Island<https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FSable_Island&data=02%7C01%7C%7C6587155631a146ebd11108d71ec08240%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637011684472417274&sdata=wdfd0ckJBYzBF6iRUJd8EzMPtvRcx495XASG6%2BUkcJ4%3D&reserved=0>, VCT (MCT was their earlier Marconi call letters because those calls began with "M", but now it's Canada's letters) -- called "The Nymph and the Lamp" by Thomas Raddall a Canadian author who lived in the Annapolis Valley near Halifax, Nova Scotia. I typed up some of the most interesting parts dealing with Morse Code in this file.

Extracts from "The Nymph and the Lamp" by Thomas Raddall.<https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fqsl.net%2Fn1ea%2FRaddall_All_Exerpts.pdf&data=02%7C01%7C%7C6587155631a146ebd11108d71ec08240%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637011684472437290&sdata=IWcF%2FGEMYDx8J%2FX4m8M3heThhhxalPLJhKXjVdtb8aA%3D&reserved=0>

The newer guys will like this - and if your See Nile like me, you won't remember you read it ten years ago.

73
DR

On Sun, Aug 11, 2019 at 8:41 PM Hans Brakob <kzerohb at gmail.com<mailto:kzerohb at gmail.com>> wrote:
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> Well, it starts out.....  “SUQ DE NHXW QRQ K”
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> 73, de Hans, KØHB
> “Just a Boy and his Radio”
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