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

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

Ampersand (&) has a Morse symbol in American Morse, it is
. ... That is one dot then the longer intercharacter space of American
Morse that was used in the letters C O R Y and Z, then three dots.

@ used to be called officially  "commercial at". It's also called
"at" or "each" if we had to send a telegram with it, we were supposed to
send "circle-a".

Best wishes,

David



On Wed, Feb 5, 2020, 14:53 Richard Knoppow <1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com> wrote:

>     This is pretty much what I've seen except that parenthesis
> are given as -.--.-  () both opening and closing. Brackets are
> really a different symbol [ ]
>     The @ symbol AFAIK has always been called an ampersand. Why
> is a new term necessary? However, its a useful addition.
>     The semi-colon and colon-dash :- appears in the list for
> American Morse but evidently was never assigned for Continental
> Morse.
>
> On 2/5/2020 6:58 AM, D.J.J. Ring, Jr. wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> > =30=
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