[TriLUG] ham guys: morse code

J Hays jhays at trilug.org
Fri Feb 20 13:14:07 EST 2004


This might be of interest:

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| Morse Code Enters The 21st Century                                 |
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|   posted by simoniker on Thursday February 19, @07:03 (tech)       |
|   http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/02/18/2350207              |
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[0]N8TWJ writes "The [1]International Telecommunications Union has
decided to bring [2]Morse Code into the 21st century by [3]adding the
loved (or hated?) - at (@) symbol. Lets hope the spammers don't start
sniffing 20 meters for da-dit-da-dit-dah-dit..." According to the
article, Paul Rinaldo, chief technical officer for the American Radio
Relay League, says: "It's a pretty big deal... there certainly hasn't
been any change [in Morse Code characters] since before World War II."

Discuss this story at:
    http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=04/02/18/2350207

Links:
    0. http://www.nufone.net/
    1. http://www.itu.int/
    2. http://www.npg.si.edu/edu/brush/guide/unit2/morse.html
    3. http://www.cjonline.com/stories/021704/pag_morsecode.shtml

-Jonathan Hays
 NB6H (callsign Active, operator Inactive)






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