[Elecraft] K3 CW to Data and "ES" for ampersand?

[Bob Cunnings]

Sure, but we're not using American Morse here - there's no "half step"
in International Morse. Whatever - I'm the communications protocol
design guy at work, and can't avoid a purist attitude about gateways
(CW to ASCII in this case). I can see prosigns used as link control
characters since they are distinct codes, but think that International
Morse text, numeric, and punctuation characters should pass through
untouched - why second guess the intention of the sender?

Bob NW8L

On 10/10/07, Kevin Rock <kevinrock at earthlink.net> wrote:
> If I remember my history correctly ES was the American Morse method of
> sending an ampersand.  Leigh was quite correct in mentioning this proword
> as using the half step much like DE uses.  My favorite drift was the
> original HO HO to HEE HEE to HI HI.  Much like the great vowel shift of
> Middle English which was still sliding while William Shakespeare was
> writing his plays and sonnets.  Some of his rhymes no longer work in our
> English but they did then.
>
> My vote is to use the old methods and allow the ampersand its due.
>     73,
>        Kevin.  KD5ONS