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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