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

[Richard Knoppow]

     OOOPS, red fact department. I said ampersand but that is & 
not @. There may be an older name for @ but I always heard it 
called just "at".  This is what happens if you post without 
enough coffee.
     The & symbol exists in Continental code as E S just as 30 
(end of work) survives as SK except for the long final dash.

On 2/5/2020 12:21 PM, D.J.J. Ring, Jr. wrote:
> 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 <mailto: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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