[Milsurplus] Navy Code Alphabet

[C.Whitaker]

de WB2CPN
All the AT&T Long Lines test positions used keys and
sounders for the Order Wire.  I have a couple here left
over when I had a real job.   The sounder is in a little
wood half-box.  Are there any telegraph nets running
now?  In 1970 I gave someone a couple of bridges
that AT&T was removing.  Don't remember who.
CW is not dead by any means.  Ham bands are still
active.  I play with it now and then, very slowly.
73  Clete
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On 7/5/2012 12:47 AM, w8au at sssnet.com wrote:
> At 11:05 PM 7/4/2012, C.Whitaker wrote:
>
>> Bruce, do you have the American and Continental code lists
>> so that we could compare them.   Some Trivia, but there is
>> a group of old telegraphers who have a working net, one day
>> a week, I think, via landline phone.   They use hand keys and
>> Bugs and Click-Click sounders.  Used to use AT&T 201 modems,
>> but I don't know what they use here in 2012.
> Clete:  The American code difference relates to 11 letters and 9 numbers.
> CFJLOPQRXYZ and 123567890.   Won't elaborate here since you can
> find the American code in old handbooks and even on the Internet.
> American is actually faster since it uses dots and spaces more than
> the International, which used more dashes to provide easier copy through the
> QRN and fading on radio.  International (Continental) was a German development.
>
> I learned American after I learned International, and because of
> limited use today my telegraph speed is only 1/3 of what I can
> do on radio.  Used to work the telegraph ops on HF using tone
> only (no mechanical sounder) back before the telephone modem idea
> had evolved.
>
> Kinda miss that.
>
> Perry    w8au
>
>
>
>
>> On 7/3/2012 12:30 PM, Bruce MacMillan wrote:
>>> American navy 1911 telegraph code.
>>>
>>> http://www.comsci.us/datacom/nmorse.html
>>>
>>> Bruce
>>>
>>> On 7/3/2012 3:02 PM, Ralph Cameron wrote:
>>>> I have a card which details a "Navy Code Alphabet". It is a variation of
>>>> the standard International Morse code but I'd like to know when and
>>>> where was it used. WW!!?   I haven't seen it in print before and it may
>>>> even be an obsolete code used in WW!. It starts out as follows with some
>>>> other random characters given:
>>>>
>>>> A= _ _             H= ._ _
>>>>
>>>> B= _.._            V= ._ _ _
>>>>
>>>> C= ._.              Y=...
>>>>
>>>> Any ideas?
>>>>
>>>> Ralph
>>>> VE3BBM
>>>>
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