[Qcwa] Memory Lane !!

[Neal McEwen K5RW]

> 
> The original "Continental" code had no spaces in the letters, but did
> use spaces in one character, the period, which was ".. .. ..", dit dit
> space dit dit space dit dit. To us old timers it seems only lately that
> it was changed to dit dah dit dah dit dah (the old comma) and the comma
> was changed to what was the old "!" (exclamation), leaving us without
> the latter.

  The old ! was also used by spark gap operators to signify, "goint to high 
power."

73 de Neal, K5RW

> There is one character from the "American Morse," however, that is  in
> use today, it's the & (ampersand) but in International Morse it comes
> our "es" and many hams copy it that way, instead of &.
> Harvey/W4TG
> 
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