[CW] Character needed in International Morse: exclamation mark

Brown Stokes brown.stokes at gmail.com
Wed Feb 5 22:41:28 EST 2020


The character dah dah dah dit represents the letter, "cheh," in cyrillic.
Don't know about the exclamation point.

Brown (N5FDR)

On Wed, Feb 5, 2020 at 2:56 PM Richard Knoppow <1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com>
wrote:

>      I wonder where this came from. The combination for
> exclamation in American Morse is ---.  I don't think that means
> anything in Continental code.
>
> On 2/5/2020 12:49 PM, Fabian Kurz wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 05, 2020 at 08:28:32PM +0000, Bruce Prior wrote:
> >> The exclamation mark would be very helpful for CW ragchewing. It
> >> exists in American Morse, but not International.
> >> dah-di-dah-di-dah-dah has been suggested.
> > FWIW, I have often heard stations from SM, OZ and LA use ..--. as an
> > exclamation mark in rag chew QSOs on the air.
> >
> > 73
> > Fabian, DJ1YFK
> >
>
> --
> Richard Knoppow
> 1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com
> WB6KBL
>
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