- 1. [CBQ] Re: FW: Morse Code: A Lost Language (score: 1)
- Author: "teejay0469_2" <t.m.j@comcast.net>
- Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 14:24:07 -0600
- This has been a very interesting thread and have enjoyed it. It really hit me since I had a desire to learn morse when I was a teenager. I never did but I might have a chance in the near future. To t
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2010-12/msg00160.html (33,420 bytes)
- 2. RE: [CBQ] Re: FW: Morse Code: A Lost Language (score: 1)
- Author: Gerald Edgar <vje68@hotmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 16:03:58 -0600
- There were commercial RR business schools as well as mail order outfits where such devices were used or purchased as well as by the RR's themselves. The machine had tapes for various speeds of sendin
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2010-12/msg00161.html (35,162 bytes)
- 3. [CBQ] Re: FW: Morse Code: A Lost Language (score: 1)
- Author: "teejay0469_2" <t.m.j@comcast.net>
- Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 16:34:13 -0600
- I am glad I found it and pushed to save it also. You would not believe how many old train order ledgers hit the trash can and other assorted unneeded paperwork. I was flabergasted when I heard about
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2010-12/msg00162.html (38,222 bytes)
- 4. RE: [CBQ] Re: FW: Morse Code: A Lost Language (score: 1)
- Author: Gerald Edgar <vje68@hotmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 18:02:37 -0600
- Tks for your efforts Tom - there were detour moves thru tghere (Rock island Twin City Rockets), Ringling Bro's circus train, etc - so much funneled there from Twin Cities to/from Chicago & points E &
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2010-12/msg00163.html (39,221 bytes)
- 5. [CBQ] Re: FW: Morse Code: A Lost Language (score: 1)
- Author: "apo09324" <apo09324@yahoo.com>
- Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 18:52:25 -0600
- Was the machine an Instructograph? I borrowed one from a local ham when I was learning code for my novice license in 1964. The beauty of the machine was you could use paper tapes for whatever type of
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2010-12/msg00187.html (36,653 bytes)
- 6. RE: [CBQ] Re: FW: Morse Code: A Lost Language (score: 1)
- Author: Gerald Edgar <vje68@hotmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 06:19:19 -0600
- I believe there were a couple of brands as 'in the day' Western Union needed many skilled "op's" as did some other employers who used code. Gerald Was the machine an Instructograph? I borrowed one fr
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2010-12/msg00192.html (37,486 bytes)
- 7. [CBQ] Re: FW: Morse Code: A Lost Language (score: 1)
- Author: "glen brewer" <gbrewer@yahoo.com>
- Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 08:53:59 -0600
- The Instructograph came in two varieties: one for land Morse code and one for radio code (International Morse code). The codes are slightly different. For either, you connect your own sounder (real M
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2010-12/msg00196.html (39,005 bytes)
- 8. Re: [CBQ] Re: FW: Morse Code: A Lost Language (score: 1)
- Author: "Dale Reeves" <drale99@roadrunner.com>
- Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 11:14:04 -0500
- Not accurate to say the codes are slightly different. Continental Morse has fewer dashes, many letters different. Uses spaces, much faster. For instance, C is .. .., much faster than -.-. -- Original
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2010-12/msg00197.html (39,366 bytes)
- 9. [CBQ] Re: FW: Morse Code: A Lost Language (score: 1)
- Author: "glen brewer" <gbrewer@yahoo.com>
- Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 09:32:33 -0600
- Morse has Dale, In conventional (land) Morse, a C is ".. ." vs "- . - ." in radio code. The SOS well known as "... -- ..." in radio code, would be "... . . ..." in Western Union or RR code. The real
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2010-12/msg00198.html (12,783 bytes)
- 10. RE: [CBQ] Re: FW: Morse Code: A Lost Language (score: 1)
- Author: "Nelson Moyer" <ku0a@mchsi.com>
- Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 11:40:47 -0600
- Actually, International Morse is faster to send and easier to copy at high speed, where the spaces in Continental code get lost above 35-40 words per minute. It takes longer to send C in Continental
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2010-12/msg00199.html (15,014 bytes)
- 11. [CBQ] Re: FW: Morse Code: A Lost Language (score: 1)
- Author: "glen brewer" <gbrewer@yahoo.com>
- Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 11:45:17 -0600
- Nelson, I believe we have a confusion over names here. As I understand it, WU and the RRs used "American Morse", I'm not sure what the difference between International Morse and Continental Morse is,
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2010-12/msg00200.html (16,190 bytes)
- 12. [CBQ] Re: FW: Morse Code: A Lost Language (score: 1)
- Author: "teejay0469_2" <t.m.j@comcast.net>
- Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 12:43:19 -0600
- Hi Ken, Next time I get a chance to inspect the unit, I will try to ascertain the make and model. I is in a small wodden box (maybe 6x6) and there were about a dozen paper tapes with it in seperate c
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2010-12/msg00202.html (39,973 bytes)
- 13. [CBQ] Re: FW: Morse Code: A Lost Language (score: 1)
- Author: "dr strangelove" <kaiserwillieii0815@yahoo.com>
- Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2010 03:10:44 -0600
- You mention "texting" as being the same as those guys doing morse, well it is true! There is a kind of fad going around called "STEAMPUNK", where people dress and act in an alternate universe. Think
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2010-12/msg00206.html (12,107 bytes)
- 14. [CBQ] Re: FW: Morse Code: A Lost Language (score: 1)
- Author: "morrowjay" <jaygroups@jaymorrow.org>
- Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 13:30:19 -0600
- In the late 1960's I was a telegraph operator on the Ft. Worth and Denver during the summers between college semesters. I much preferred the company phone, but could use telegraph if I needed to. At
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2010-11/msg00179.html (12,911 bytes)
- 15. RE: [CBQ] Re: FW: Morse Code: A Lost Language (score: 1)
- Author: "Nelson Moyer" <ku0a@mchsi.com>
- Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 15:05:45 -0600
- The last bastion of Morse code was/is amateur radio, but now that the FCC has abolished a code requirement for all license classes, the number of hams able to send and receive Morse code will dwindle
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2010-11/msg00180.html (14,076 bytes)
- 16. RE: [CBQ] Re: FW: Morse Code: A Lost Language (score: 1)
- Author: ROBERT K SORENSEN <rksmes@q.com>
- Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 23:28:12 +0000
- There are two slightly different Morse Codes. In 1953, I attended an Army School and learned what they told us was International Morse Code. I remember seeing a chart that showed the difference betwe
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2010-11/msg00183.html (15,220 bytes)
- 17. [CBQ] Re: FW: Morse Code: A Lost Language (score: 1)
- Author: "mzz64" <mzz64@yahoo.com>
- Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 10:37:47 -0600
- The Great Northern Depot in Wayzata, MN still has the original telegraph equipment intact and on display. We have a continuous loop tape that plays back through a sounder and sends "Welcome to the Wa
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2010-11/msg00195.html (11,242 bytes)
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