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From: rjr@mgweed.UUCP (Bob Roehrig)
Newsgroups: net.ham-radio
Subject: Morse Code
Message-ID: <3922@mgweed.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 4-Oct-83 10:13:42 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct  4 10:13:42 1983
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Thanks to all that responded to my Morse code question.

(Lindsay, there is a dit missing at the end of the quote character
you had in your chart - maybe the ARRL was wrong....)

I guess part of my confusion was due to an old article I had (I just
found it again) that was printed in 1939 and gave both the original
Morse code and the Continental code. The Continental (International)
Code is the same as we use today except for a few punctuation
differences. The Continental Code was created in 1875 at a convention
held in Russia. The differences in it and the code we use today are:

		1875		Today
    Period	.. .. ..	._._._
    Comma	._._._		__..__
    Exclamation	__..__		none 

I wonder when it got changed.

Bob, K9EUI