New Morse code symbor for "@"
 

In today's paper (Star Ledger) it said that the ITU established
a new code symbol for "@". It is the letters A and C run together.
Larry take note.

In article , Robert Casey
writes:


In today's paper (Star Ledger) it said that the ITU established
a new code symbol for "@". It is the letters A and C run together.
Larry take note.

I saw that myself. The new character (the first since the WWII era) is
called the "commat." Weird name; I would assume a character so named
was a combination of the Morse characters for a "comma" and the letter
"t." However, the "commat" is a combination of the letters "a" and "c."
Why don't they call it the "atsign," which is what it is supposed to represent?

For anyone who missed it, here's the story:

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nat...eb16,0,2782636
..story

73 de Larry, K3LT

In article , ospam
(Larry Roll K3LT) writes:

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nat...eb16,0,2782636
.story

It was also a story on NPR's "All Things Considered":

http://www.npr.org/rundowns/rundown....b-2004&prgId=2

Also, this weekend there were two interesting stories on "Next Big Thing" - one
about a Victorian-era novel about romance by telegraph ("Love On The Wire"),
and the other about Morse code use by hams:

http://www.nextbigthing.org/

scroll down and click to hear streaming audio.

73 de Jim, N2EY

In article , Robert Casey
writes:

In today's paper (Star Ledger) it said that the ITU established
a new code symbol for "@". It is the letters A and C run together.

Such wonderful news for all the olde-tyme morosemen out
there! No doubt will be of tremendous help in alleviating
communications carrier grid lock!
















So...really, Bob, how did you manage to plant that story? :-)

LHA / WMD

In article , lenover21
@aol.com says...
In article , Robert Casey
writes:

In today's paper (Star Ledger) it said that the ITU established
a new code symbol for "@". It is the letters A and C run together.

Such wonderful news for all the olde-tyme morosemen out
there! No doubt will be of tremendous help in alleviating
communications carrier grid lock!


Hey - at least now it'll be easy to pass an email address for QSL
purposes.

On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Tony P. wrote:
In article , lenover21
@aol.com says...
In article , Robert Casey
writes:

In today's paper (Star Ledger) it said that the ITU established
a new code symbol for "@". It is the letters A and C run together.

Such wonderful news for all the olde-tyme morosemen out
there! No doubt will be of tremendous help in alleviating
communications carrier grid lock!


Hey - at least now it'll be easy to pass an email address for QSL
purposes.

Is it really? Sending the word "at" is still faster!

Yep,

I was going to mention that last night but assumed it would be
self-evident. I keep forgetting that nothing is evident to many loose in
this newsgroup ;)

73 from Rochester, NY
Jim AA2QA


"D. Stussy" wrote
Is it really? Sending the word "at" is still faster!


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Easier, in English anyway.

"Jim Hampton" wrote in message
...
Yep,

I was going to mention that last night but assumed it would be
self-evident. I keep forgetting that nothing is evident to many loose in
this newsgroup ;)

73 from Rochester, NY
Jim AA2QA


"D. Stussy" wrote
Is it really? Sending the word "at" is still faster!


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