[Lowfer] CW Spacings

[JD]

> Any idea on what the dot length, of a dash is ?

In Morse, a standard dah is three dits long.

>ditto for the inter dot/dash spacing ?

One dot length.

>ditto for the character spacing between letter/numbers ? 1 dash length
Yes.

>ditto for spacing between words ?

Well, standard spacings are just ridiculously long when using QRSS.  I sure
wouldn't use more than two dash lengths.

>I am modeling a CW ID message in (QRSS120) to determine how
>I can comply with  the requirement of 10 minute CW IDing.
>Maybe a STA for part 97 ham band operation is needed.

Don't bother with an STA.  Two reasons:

1.  You can just make the standard CW ID at the start of one of the QRSS
"dots" or "dashes."  Nobody receiving in QRSS will notice the difference,
unless they're close enough to you to perceive the extra sidebands as a bit
of fuzz on the display.

2.  It will be wasted effort.  On any currently authorized ham band,
ionospheric propagation is going to chop up a 120 secod "dot" into
gibberish, let alone a SIX MINUTE "dash."  You will be transmitting a signal
that *cannot* be received as intelligence outside the groundwave zone, so it
will constitute a superfluous transmission so far as an distant listener is
concerned; that is to say, QRM.

Sorry, but more than a few seconds of "dit" is going to be useless.  On a
bad day, even QRSS3 will be pointless.

John