[QCWA] Continental morse vs international

[Norm Gertz]

Joe.......many of the old time CW operators used the Morse characters....
dit dit for the letter O and dah dah dah dah for CH etc.....
I signed my logs at WAR with rj to the other operators sine but never had a 
clue as to where it came from.
We also used "BQ" for out outgoing service messages and "RQ" for the 
replies.
Lots of mysterious abbreviations for sure.

73   Norm


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joseph Fenn" <jfenn at lava.net>
To: <qcwa at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, August 29, 2005 4:44 PM
Subject: [QCWA] Continental morse vs international


>I know I have asked this question many times before but still have not
> found an answer yet.  I went to "FISTS" and other sources but still
> came up with nada.   During my 40 years of cw with old CAA,Panam,
> ARINC, etc of CW work I did find there were certain carryovers from
> Continental morse (and RR telegraphy) certain letters which were
> used commonly in Airline cW work as well as to the ham band cw useage.
> "w o" was sent as  di dah dah    dit dit.  Which was question meaining
> "who is the opr at the other end of the circuit.   Also  another
> "dit dit   dah di dah" meaning "OK".  Frequently still encountered
> even today.   Both stemmed from continental morse (also RR teletraphy)
> and the   "dit    dit" with space is the letter "o" in old morse.
> The one translation I could never find the relationship for was
> "rj"  (meaning wait while I change to my relief opr).   How in the
> heck can that be read backward in RR or old Morse telegraphy to give
> that meaning.   I even tried  "rlf" but found no relationship to
> RR or continental morse.   Any clues from anyone would be appreciated.
> (dit   dit)  with spaceing is of course the letter "o" in morse
> and RR telegraphy hence    Dit    Dit    Dah di dah means OK and
> is still used often particularly from the aussies and new zealanders.
> So how would the code be in continental morse for
> "standby my relief opr is here".
>                          Joe
>
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