[MRCA] code wheel

Sat Apr 25 09:59:39 EDT 2015

When I was a kid there was a place I think in Vermont that made a wooden
train whistle.  On the side it had all of the morse code signals for the
different train operations.

N1XBM
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On Apr 25, 2015 9:55 AM, "Christopher Bowne" <aj1g at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> Forgot the link...
>
> Train horn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Train_horn#Common_horn_signals>
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> [image: image]
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Train_horn#Common_horn_signals>
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> Train horn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Train_horn#Common_horn_signals>
> A train horn is an air horn which serves as an audible warning device on
> diesel and electric locomotives. Its primary purpose is to alert persons
> and animals to the...
> View on en.wikipedia.org
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>   On Saturday, April 25, 2015 9:51 AM, Christopher Bowne <
> aj1g at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
>
> Link to another train signal page that include a number of audio files of
> various types of train horns. Almost all of them apparently were made of
> the Q signals sent by trains approaching grade crossings.
>
> As I was listening to them, I thought of what the world would be like if
> Morse came up with communications system that instead of using electrical
> circuits for transmission, relayed messages from town to town using loud
> whistle or horn blasts of Morse code!  What a cacachonous  world we would
> live in! I guess we do have somethng similar in the fire station whistle
> alarm codes.  The local Westerly RI downtown fire station still sounds
> coded blasts that idenfity fire locations, especially for major buildings
> in town.  And they still test the whistle every day at exactly at noon!
> Several of the factories  around here still have shift start whistles,
> which also are used as warning signals for emergencies.
>
>
>   On Saturday, April 25, 2015 9:27 AM, Christopher Bowne <
> aj1g at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
>
> Link to details on train whistle signals.  Interesting that  the signals
> are described as a series of long and short whistle blasts, and all seem to
> be directly translatable to Morse characters, however, no mention of a
> relationship to Morse in the article.  The "Q" signal approaching a grade
> crossing is apparently universally used at least here in the US...will keep
> an ear out for it around here, the Amtrak mainline along the shore between
> NYC and Boston passes within a half mile of here, we hear the whistles
> (actually now air horns on the diesels and electrics) all the time.  Until
> a few years ago, all the trains passing through here were diesel powered,
> the electrified section toward NYC did not start until New Haven,  I think
> the entire shoreline route between NYC and Boston is now electrified.
>
>
> Train whistle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Train_whistle>
>
>
>
>
> [image: image] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Train_whistle>
>
>
>
>
>
> Train whistle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Train_whistle>
> A train whistle or air whistle (originally referred to as a steam trumpet)
> is an audible signaling device on a steam locomotive used to warn that the
> train is appro...
> View on en.wikipedia.org <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Train_whistle>
> Preview by Yahoo
>
>
>
>
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>
>
>  On Friday, April 24, 2015 2:32 PM, Tim <timsamm at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> I had wondered about the "Railroad Q" signal.  Apparently a holdover from
> the UK when a Royal Navy vessel had the Queen aboard.  "Stand Clear" etc....
>
> Sending Q on the air horns at crossings seems to be pretty universal
> around here.  Who knew?  LOL
> Tim
> N6CC
>
> On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 5:39 AM, Rob Flory <farmer.rob.flory at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> The railroad engineers have such funky fists that it was not until I read
> in an old magazine that they send Morse Q at grade crossings that I
> recognized it as such.  Their spacings are all over the place.
>
> I also did not recognize that the Rush instrumental YYZ is based on the
> Morse ID for Toronto airport, that they must have heard coming out of the
> cockpit on their way back from tour.  Again, funky timing.
>
> RF
>
> On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 2:05 PM, B. Smith <smithab11 at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>  Interesting, it also gives the spacing information.
> Z
>
>
> On 4/23/2015 1:43 PM, Al Klase wrote:
>
> Breck,
>
> 3:1 anywhere I've ever seen it.  Is the Bureau of Standards good enough?
>
>
>
>
> Al
>
> Al Klase – N3FRQ
> Jersey City, NJhttp://www.skywaves.ar88.net/
>
> On 4/23/2015 11:18 AM, B. Smith wrote:
>
> Interesting. Is the 3:1   a published International  Standard or perhaps
> just a ham standard that has developed over the years?
>
>
> Z
>
> On 4/23/2015 2:56 AM, Mike Morrow wrote:
>
> What about that dot to dash ratio. Looks like about 5:1?  A ratio
> of 3:1 would be quite a bit of "swing"...
>
> A dash:dot ratio of 3:1 would be NO swing at all.  That is the exact
> definition of the proper lenghth of dash compared to dot for zero
> weighting.
>
>
>
>
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>   On Saturday, April 25, 2015 9:27 AM, Christopher Bowne <
> aj1g at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
>
> Link to details on train whistle signals.  Interesting that  the signals
> are described as a series of long and short whistle blasts, and all seem to
> be directly translatable to Morse characters, however, no mention of a
> relationship to Morse in the article.  The "Q" signal approaching a grade
> crossing is apparently universally used at least here in the US...will keep
> an ear out for it around here, the Amtrak mainline along the shore between
> NYC and Boston passes within a half mile of here, we hear the whistles
> (actually now air horns on the diesels and electrics) all the time.  Until
> a few years ago, all the trains passing through here were diesel powered,
> the electrified section toward NYC did not start until New Haven,  I think
> the entire shoreline route between NYC and Boston is now electrified.
>
>
> Train whistle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Train_whistle>
>
>
>
>
> [image: image] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Train_whistle>
>
>
>
>
>
> Train whistle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Train_whistle>
> A train whistle or air whistle (originally referred to as a steam trumpet)
> is an audible signaling device on a steam locomotive used to warn that the
> train is appro...
> View on en.wikipedia.org <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Train_whistle>
> Preview by Yahoo
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>  On Friday, April 24, 2015 2:32 PM, Tim <timsamm at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> I had wondered about the "Railroad Q" signal.  Apparently a holdover from
> the UK when a Royal Navy vessel had the Queen aboard.  "Stand Clear" etc....
>
> Sending Q on the air horns at crossings seems to be pretty universal
> around here.  Who knew?  LOL
> Tim
> N6CC
>
> On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 5:39 AM, Rob Flory <farmer.rob.flory at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> The railroad engineers have such funky fists that it was not until I read
> in an old magazine that they send Morse Q at grade crossings that I
> recognized it as such.  Their spacings are all over the place.
>
> I also did not recognize that the Rush instrumental YYZ is based on the
> Morse ID for Toronto airport, that they must have heard coming out of the
> cockpit on their way back from tour.  Again, funky timing.
>
> RF
>
> On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 2:05 PM, B. Smith <smithab11 at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>  Interesting, it also gives the spacing information.
> Z
>
>
> On 4/23/2015 1:43 PM, Al Klase wrote:
>
> Breck,
>
> 3:1 anywhere I've ever seen it.  Is the Bureau of Standards good enough?
>
>
>
>
> Al
>
> Al Klase – N3FRQ
> Jersey City, NJhttp://www.skywaves.ar88.net/
>
> On 4/23/2015 11:18 AM, B. Smith wrote:
>
> Interesting. Is the 3:1   a published International  Standard or perhaps
> just a ham standard that has developed over the years?
>
>
> Z
>
> On 4/23/2015 2:56 AM, Mike Morrow wrote:
>
> What about that dot to dash ratio. Looks like about 5:1?  A ratio
> of 3:1 would be quite a bit of "swing"...
>
> A dash:dot ratio of 3:1 would be NO swing at all.  That is the exact
> definition of the proper lenghth of dash compared to dot for zero
> weighting.
>
>
>
>
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