[CW] Fwd: QRL? Or the old American "C" Are you busy?

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

I correct myself.  Semicolon wasn't allowed.

Rec.  ITU-R  M.1677-1 3  1.1.3 Punctuation marks and miscellaneous signs
Full stop (period) ................................................. [ . ]
. − . − . −
Comma ................................................................ [ ,
] − − . . − −   Colon or division
sign......................................... [ : ] − − − . . .   Question
mark (note of interrogation or request for  repetition of a transmission
not understood...... [?] . . − − . .
 Apostrophe.......................................................... [ ’ ]
. − − − − .   Hyphen or dash or subtraction sign .................. [ ­- ]
− . . . . −   Fraction bar or division sign...............................
[ / ] − . . − .   Left-hand bracket (parenthesis).........................
[ ( ] − . − − .   Right-hand bracket (parenthesis)....................... [
) ] − . − − . −   Inverted commas (quotation marks) (before and after  the
words) ..................................................................
[“ ”] . − . . − .   Double
hyphen..................................................... [=] − . . . −
 Understood................................................................
. . . − .   Error (eight
dots)....................................................... . . . . . . .
.   Cross or addition sign......................................... [+] . −
. − .   Invitation to
transmit................................................ − . −
 Wait
..........................................................................
. − . . .
 End of work ..............................................................
. . . − . −   Starting signal (to precede every transmission)... − . − . −
 Multiplication sign.............................................. [×] − .
. −   Commercial at @ sign ………(acrobase)…………… [@]  .­ ­−−.­−.

Vocabulary note: In December 2002, the French General Committee on
Terminology approved the term  “arobase” for the @ symbol used in e-mail
addresses.

2 Spacing and length of the signals
2.1 A dash is equal to three dots.
2.2 The space between the signals forming the same letter is equal to one
dot.
2.3 The space between two letters is equal to three dots.
2.4 The space between two words is equal to seven dots.

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