[Fists] Circle-A in Morse Code

[Cheryl W. Ring]

Fred,

I don't think it was the ITU that wanted to do away with morse code in ham
testing, it was the IARU that wanted that.  They succeeded.

This change wasn't done by the ARRL:

In Geneva on December 5, the ITU Radiocommunication Sector (ITU-R) Study
Group 8 agreed on the wording of a Draft New Recommendation ITU-R M.[MORSE]
that specifies the international Morse code character set and transmission
procedures. It also includes a new Morse code character to cover the "@"
symbol used in e-mail addresses.

Any way the "current" ITU regulations and recommendations in Appendex B
(Morse manual telegraphy by radio and sounder intended for aural reception)
state that @ is sent "CIRCLE-A" which is much much longer.  Of course, you
can send the Trade Mark symbol as " CIRCLE-TM" which makes it rather
flexible, and "Copyright" as ... well I'm sure you get the drift.

In commercial circles we still used the OLD exclaimation point - or WARNING
HIGH POWER to ward off a "doofus" that was doing idiotic things.

So we can say to ARRL:  DAH-DAAAAAAAAH-DI-DI-DAAAAAAAAH-DAAAAAAAAAAAH

We used to stretch out the dashes!  It was used in the old days of crystal
detectors so that the other operators would have their ears hurt when we
turned on the high power spark transmitter.

73

David Ring
N1EA

----- Original Message -----
From: "Fred Adsit" <ny2v@earthlink.net>
To: <fists@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2003 6:19 PM
Subject: Re: [Fists] Circle-A in Morse Code


> How utterly stupid. AT is one dit and two dahs.
> AC run together is THREE dits and THREE dahs.
> What will they do with periods in the address?? Golly, they may actually
> go on sending didahdahdidah. Slightly more time efficient but not what
> traffic handlers use, not that they really support the NTS any more in its
> present incarnation....
> They didn't want to disturb 150 years of history. Well, let us hope they
> do NOT.
> Just my opinion about these dimwits. Your mileage may vary. If it varies
> very much, sell your keys, get out the mic, and now what are you going to
> say when you need to explain an email address? Mine is NY2V AT EARTHLINK
> DOT NET. There simply is no other way to say it, is there? Well, I guess
> one could say NY2V AT EARTHLINK PERIOD NET. That would fit the PERIOD COM
> generation, wouldn't it. STUPID.
>
> Fred
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Cheryl W. Ring
> To: fists@mailman.qth.net
> Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2003 5:57 PM
> Subject: [Fists] Circle-A in Morse Code
>
> @ symbol for MORSE CODE!!!!
>
> http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2003/12/10/2/?nc=1
>
> 73
>
> David Ring, N1EA
>
>
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