I don't think I ever got the hang of the prosigns... I got the AR.
To me, BT is a dash (-) but I don't know if that's correct or not. I
sometimes get the ',' and '?' confused. The / character I know well,
because I always hear it on our local repeater ident, and it it's in
my beacon's ident (va3grr/b).
But.... how can you tell an ES from the letter H? The other ones,
the AR, BT, the / character, all have 'unique' sounds when you hear
them, right? Isn't ES the same as 'h'? Or am I completely lost?
73 de Stephanie
va3uxb
K1 # 02132
p.s. As an aside, I stumbled onto the W1AW code practice session last
night on 80 meters; that's a great tool for helping build code speed
and confidence. I got about 80% of the 10wpm, so I'm not doing as
bad as I thought. I was only getting about 50% of the 13wpm but I
probably would have done better if I was writing it down. This
morning I looked up the W1AW schedule so I'll know when to find them
again. It's much better, in my opinion, than tapes or computer-
generated stuff, because it's 'real', over the air. The computer
stuff and tapes always seemed to me to be too sterile, too perfect.
Perhaps too boring and too dull.
On 11-Jan-2006, at 21.33.43, Ron D'Eau Claire wrote:
Try sending the e-mail address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]<G>.
All of the characters on the keyboard have Morse equivalents
defined by the
ITU to avoid confusion.
I guess that's why we're confused.
The & may have originated in American Morse, but the ITU recognizes
it as
the prosign 'ES'.
Ron AC7AC
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin Rock
Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 6:23 PM
To: Elecraft Reflector
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Anticipating Morse (WAS: More ECN errata)
Good Grief Folks! At (@) is simple di-dah dah :) I wondered why
they
made it so complicated when the entire word is much shorter.
Kevin. KD5ONS
By the way: the AND sign comes from American Morse. It is truly a
single
character with one of those odd length spaces rife in American Morse.
KJR
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