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From: glc@akgua.UUCP (g.l. cleveland )
Newsgroups: net.ham-radio
Subject: Re: Morse punctuation
Message-ID: <331@akgua.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 4-Oct-83 00:21:56 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct  4 00:21:56 1983
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Reference: <3758@mgweed.UUCP>

Last week, Bob, K9EUI asked about the Morse characters for various
punctuation characters.  Since I saw no comment or reply on the
net, I am hoping that someone supplied them.  However, on the
off-chance nobody came thru and/or others may be interested, I
quote from the ARRL publication "Learning the Radiotelegraph Code",
copyright 1957 (when Headquarters was still located in Hartford,
Conn.):

                      SPECIAL SYMBOLS

 In transmitting text there of course is a need for code symbols
for punctuation marks and some special procedure signals to
facilitate rapid transmission. The important ones are:

   Period             didahdidahdidah   ._._._
   Comma              dahdahdididahdah  __..__
   Question mark      dididahdahdidit   ..__..
   Double dash        dahdidididah      _..._  (BT)
   End of message     didahdidahdit     ._._.  (AR)
   End of work        didididahdidah    ..._._ (SK)
   Wait               didahdididit      ._...  (AS)
   Invitation to xmit dahdidah          _._    (K)
   Hyphen             dahdididididah    _...._
   Parentheses        dahdidahdahdidah  _.__._
   Colon              dahdahdahdididit  ___...
   Semicolon          dahdidahdidahdit  _._._.
   Quotes             didahdididah      ._.._
   Error              didididididididit ........
   Apostrophe         didahdahdahdahdit .____.
   Fraction Bar       dahdididahdit     _.._.
   Understood         didididahdit      ..._.
   Attention          dahdidahdidah     _._._

Hope this is useful.

       73,   Lindsay   W4IZI

Lindsay Cleveland  (...{ihnp4|mhux?|clyde}!akgua!glc)
AT&T Western Electric/Bell Labs ... Atlanta, Ga
(404) 447-3909 ...  Cornet 583-3909