[Elecraft] bout cw

[L. D. Ingram]

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At 11:19 AM 4/28/2003 -0500, you wrote:
still new to this but wondering how does cw translate to other langauges 
are the dits and das matched to compatible letters from another language ie 
english to japanese
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I am not sure about Japanese but I know that for Chinese, for cw they 
either communicate in a language (usually English) that has an alphabet 
that can be handled in cw, or, if they want to communicate using Chinese 
characters, they use what is known as the telegraph code that was devised 
for telegraph use when the telegraph first became available in China.

The telegraph code consists of groups of 4 digit numbers. Each 4 digit 
number represents a Chinese character. Some one familiar with the code can 
remember many of the combinations, but they still have to look up the code 
in a book for many of the characters.

Of course you have to be able to read Chinese to do this.

Larry Ingram  AG4NN
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