International Morse code does not use certain half spaces like the
American Morse code does. However there are still half spaces in well
formed code in certain prowords such as DE and ES. If you send them
without the half space they don't mean the same thing. Therefore you can
sense meaning from the spacing. Since that is the way it has been used
and still is being used why should we change the protocol?
Kevin.
On Wed, 10 Oct 2007 23:02:01 -0700, Bob Cunnings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Sure, but we're not using American Morse here - there's no "half step"
in International Morse. Whatever - I'm the communications protocol
design guy at work, and can't avoid a purist attitude about gateways
(CW to ASCII in this case). I can see prosigns used as link control
characters since they are distinct codes, but think that International
Morse text, numeric, and punctuation characters should pass through
untouched - why second guess the intention of the sender?
Bob NW8L
On 10/10/07, Kevin Rock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
If I remember my history correctly ES was the American Morse method of
sending an ampersand. Leigh was quite correct in mentioning this
proword
as using the half step much like DE uses. My favorite drift was the
original HO HO to HEE HEE to HI HI. Much like the great vowel shift of
Middle English which was still sliding while William Shakespeare was
writing his plays and sonnets. Some of his rhymes no longer work in our
English but they did then.
My vote is to use the old methods and allow the ampersand its due.
73,
Kevin. KD5ONS
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