[Qcwa] Memory Lane !!

[Neal McEwen]

ken cubilo electric wrote:
> 
> Yes you are correct ditdit dit the continental code C for clear?,

  You guys are confusing Continental Code and American Morse Code. 
Continental code is the landline code used in Europe (hence Continental)
since the mid 1850s.   When wireless was used first used on ship and
shore stations the Europeans continued to use the Continental Code.
  The first American Ship and Shore stations used the American Morse
Code, the landline code invented by Samuel Morse and partners.  American
Morse Code was used on landlines throughout North American until its
retirement in the 1960s.  
  American Ships and European Ships on the high seas could not
communicate with each other, so we adopted the Continental Code for the
high seas, altho US ships restricted to the coastal areas continued to
use American Morse code for a few years.  Even longer on the Great
Lakes.
  The Continental code later became know as the International Morse Code
(it was now being used internationally)  In 1939, two letters of the
International Morse code changed.  Who remembers which two letter?

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