[Elecraft] Prosign confusion (was: Anticipating Morse (WAS: More ECN errata))

[Stephanie Maks]

I don't think I ever got the hang of the prosigns...  I got the AR.   
To me, BT is a dash (-) but I don't know if that's correct or not.  I  
sometimes get the ',' and '?' confused.  The / character I know well,  
because I always hear it on our local repeater ident, and it it's in  
my beacon's ident (va3grr/b).

But.... how can you tell an ES from the letter H?  The other ones,  
the AR, BT, the / character, all have 'unique' sounds when you hear  
them, right?  Isn't ES the same as 'h'?  Or am I completely lost?

73 de Stephanie
va3uxb
K1 # 02132

p.s. As an aside, I stumbled onto the W1AW code practice session last  
night on 80 meters; that's a great tool for helping build code speed  
and confidence.  I got about 80% of the 10wpm, so I'm not doing as  
bad as I thought.  I was only getting about 50% of the 13wpm but I  
probably would have done better if I was writing it down.  This  
morning I looked up the W1AW schedule so I'll know when to find them  
again.  It's much better, in my opinion, than tapes or computer- 
generated stuff, because it's 'real', over the air.  The computer  
stuff and tapes always seemed to me to be too sterile, too perfect.   
Perhaps too boring and too dull.


On 11-Jan-2006, at 21.33.43, Ron D'Eau Claire wrote:

> Try sending the e-mail address: at at att.net...<G>.
>
> All of the characters on the keyboard have Morse equivalents  
> defined by the
> ITU to avoid confusion.
>
> I guess that's why we're confused.
>
> The & may have originated in American Morse, but the ITU recognizes  
> it as
> the prosign 'ES'.
>
> Ron AC7AC
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net
> [mailto:elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Kevin Rock
> Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 6:23 PM
> To: Elecraft Reflector
> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Anticipating Morse (WAS: More ECN errata)
>
>
> Good Grief Folks!   At (@) is simple di-dah dah :)   I wondered why  
> they
> made it so complicated when the entire word is much shorter.
>
> Kevin.  KD5ONS
>
> By the way: the AND sign comes from American Morse.  It is truly a  
> single
> character with one of those odd length spaces rife in American Morse.
>     KJR