[Elecraft] Morse code for "@" (prosign 'AC') -- radio interview

Mon Feb 23 22:05:02 2004

I think that it is because @ looks somewhat like an "a" inside a "c" . . .

73, George W5YR
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Morrow" <[email protected]>
To: "Elecraft" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, February 23, 2004 2:11 PM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Morse code for "@" (prosign 'AC') -- radio interview


> Wayne Burdick wrote:
>
> > Rick Lindquist of the ARRL was recently interviewed regarding
> > the new prosign for "@":      .--.-.  ('AC')
>
> It was pointed out that this was the first official change in anyone's
memory, and that Morse is used almost *only* by hams today.
>
> I wonder why it was expressed as an 'AC' concatenation.  Thinking of it
instead as a 'WR' run-together will make it easier to send and recognize, if
one should actually ever hear it.  When I was learning the odder punctuation
symbols for my commercial telegraph license 25 years ago, I found that it
helped both my sending and copying initially to think of the "(" as a 'YE'
[instead of 'KN'] and a ")" as a 'YA' [instead of 'KK'] and an apostrophe as
a '1E' until I'd heard them enough that the total character was visualized
when heard.  Along with the colon, semi-colon, dash, and double-dash ('=')
characters, they were frequently used on Navy/CG NAVAREA and HYDROLANT
notice-to-mariner and weather broadcasts until those went off the air more
than 10 years ago.
>
> I doubt that there'll be much acceptance of 'WR' as the Morse "@" signal.
Now-a-days many hams don't even bother to send "DE" before their call sign
in a CQ/exchange, and the silly 'B K' abomination has become for many hams
the way to turn over to the other operator.
>
> 73,
> Mike / KK5F
>
>
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