Hmmm ... I had punctuation on my 2nd Telegraph exam in 1956 and got credit for the code when I sat for the Extra that afternoon at the Los Angeles FCC office. I didn't know the Extra code did not include punctuation.
All the mills at the coastal marine station I worked at had a slashed zero, and a "1" key [not present on regular typewriters, you used a lower-case "L"]. They also had a couple of prosigns on them, I remember BT and AR. We had five mills, four of which were open-frame Underwoods. The prosigns had no bar. I can't remember the make of the fifth one, never really used it, but the prosigns on it had a bar. I have a 1990 ARRL Handbook, and on pg 38-2, Table 2 lists four prosigns and a couple of other signals. AR, KN, AS, and SK all have a bar. K, R, and CL do not, not that this means anything. The operating description for AR is interesting: "Used after a call to a specific station before the contact has been established." I wonder where they got that? 73, Fred K6DGW - Northern California Contest Club - CU in the 2012 Cal QSO Party 6-7 Oct 2012 - www.cqp.org On 12/3/2011 8:05 AM, Ron D'Eau Claire wrote: > I believe -.--. has always been a left-hand parenthesis. That's what I learned. > > 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.) ______________________________________________________________ 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
