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[Richard Knoppow]

     KK was used by KPH in its press transmissions c. late 1960s. 
There were private and other codes as well as the ITU codes at 
various times. Some odd usages, for instance KPH/WCC used the 
quotation marks .-..-. while WSL/KFS used double apostrophe i.e. 
.----. .----. both opening and closing. They both sent exactly 
the same material from UPI but with slightly different 
formatting. KPH is the only station I ever heard use the CP 
prosign. Use when calling press subscribers.

On 2/12/2020 11:18 AM, D.J.J. Ring, Jr. wrote:
> Commercial working had open and closing parenthesis for as long as I remember.
> Starting was KN and closing was KK. I see in WW2 and before they used
> KK for both.
>
> I have a copy of McElroy Chart of Codes and Signals in high resolution here:
> https://archive.org/details/McElroyChartOfCodesAndSignals
>
> Amateur radio - ARRL - listed KK for both but amateurs never used
> exotic punctuation anyway.
>
> 73
> DR
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Richard Knoppow
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WB6KBL