[CW] List of prosigns

[D.J.J. Ring, Jr.]

Also procedure signs were NEVER written down. BT however was both
punctuation (=) and prosign in one!

Western Union wrote it down but often ships did not, but it was sent.

And amateurs never wrote AA down either, nor HR or KA (Starting Signal).

73
DR

On Thu, Jul 25, 2019, 12:42 D.J.J. Ring, Jr. <n1ea at arrl.net> wrote:

> Is that Harvey Strickhartz's "Radio Manual?" I missed the = between
> addressee and address because we never used that in the 1970s and later.
> Maybe I didn't look close enough.
>
> Landline and Amateur Radio practice used AA prosign between address lines,
> commercial radiotelegraphy did not use it, we just ran on with the whole
> address.
>
> We only sent = (BT) between preamble and addressee/address and TEXT,
> before the SIGNATURE and another if we sent COLLATION (repeats of numbers)
>
> 73
>
> DR
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 25, 2019, 12:18 Richard Knoppow <1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com>
> wrote:
>
>>     I am skeptical that BT means anything, it is a whole signal,
>> not a combination of two letters. It is -...-  not B space T. It
>> is always listed as a separator signal. I never heard of HR for
>> hand ready and suspect someone made it up.
>>     The "Marine Radio Manual" has a number of examples of
>> messages. It shows [BT] being used to separate the name of the
>> addressee, the street address, the text, and the signature. This
>> is c.1940 procedure. I rather wonder if [aa] is from point to
>> point service where messages were received on an ink recorder
>> where it would  be an indication for the transcribing typist to
>> start a new line.
>>
>> On 7/25/2019 6:08 AM, D.J.J. Ring, Jr. wrote:
>> > Thanks Hans,
>> >
>> > There was one book I read that had the explanation about HR and BT.
>> > It was a non-ham book, I don't know what the name of the book was, but
>> > thanks for the correction on the number of the ACP volume.
>> >
>> > I have lots of books on seagoing radio, going back to the 1920s and
>> > 30s, but mostly post WWII.
>> >
>> > Does anyone know where I might have seen that BT means "Begin Text"
>> > and HR means "hand ready"?
>> >
>> > I really believe it was a U.S. Navy publication and that I was very
>> > impressed at the quality of the research they did on the subjects they
>> > wrote about.  That's my impression, but maybe it was a book on the
>> > subject of communications, but I can't remember, but I was impressed
>> > by the knowledge.
>> >
>> > Anyone know?
>> >
>> > 73
>> >
>> > DR
>>
>>
>> --
>> Richard Knoppow
>> 1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com
>> WB6KBL
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