[Elecraft] High End Paddles

[Fred Jensen]

Well, actually there is one case.  Zero is a long dash which I can't 
send with my K1EL keyer or my K2.

<www.chss.montclair.edu/~pererat/percode.htm>

As a teen in the mid-50's, my friends and I learned American Morse just 
so we could get on 80m at night with each other and confuse others on 
the band.

Calling either the landline code or the Continental code "Morse" is one 
of the better examples of "Life isn't fair."  Sam F. B. Morse's idea was 
to have a series of numbered messages and parts of messages in a 
dictionary, from which you constructed what you wished to send and then 
sent the numbers, and he spent the vast majority of his time compiling 
that dictionary.  Sam was fairly full of himself, and when he didn't get 
enough attention, he would fall ill, often in someone else's bed.

His assistant, Alfred Vail, realized that the clicking and clacking of 
the paper tape inker could be used to decode the code and came up with 
the alphabet. So, if life were fair, it would have been the Vail code. 
Old Sam didn't really "invent" the telegraph either, but that's another 
story.

Fred K6DGW
Auburn CA CM98lw

Joe-aa4nn wrote:
> Varying lengths of dashes?
> I surely don't remember that
> when I practiced American Morse
> circa 1952.
> de Joe, aa4nn
> ---------------------------------------------------------------