I believe -.--. has always been a left-hand parenthesis. Since Hams didn't use parenthesis in CW communications, it didn't produce a conflict. (For me, the toughest part of passing the commercial RadioTelegaph license test back in the 1950's was learning to copy all the punctuation marks Hams never use mixed into 5-letter groups at 20 WPM.)
I enjoy the new @ character. Now I can get sloppy and sign my call @7@ Ron AC7AC -----Original Message----- In a recent message, Don Wilhelm <[email protected]> writes >You send the "AS" prosign as >didahdididit, "KN" as dahdidahdahdit, etc. Forgive me for making a slight correction to that, Don, but KN is not a prosign but is defined as a left-hand bracket in the latest recommendations of the ITU. The latest definitions were prepared primarily to include the Morse code sequence for @ (prosign AC). http://www.itu.int/dms_pubrec/itu-r/rec/m/R-REC-M.1677-1-200910-I!!PDF-E.pdf Consequently, K N should really be separated by a space. 73 de David G4DMP -- + - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - + | David M Pratt, Kippax, Leeds. | | Website: http://www.g4dmp.co.uk | + - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - + ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
