Talk:American Morse code

message: In the image of the 1911 Chart of the Standard American Morse Characters, what is the bottom character in the right column?
* It is a stylized P, which is the typographical symbol for "new paragraph".   According to G. M. Dodge's 1917 edition of The Telegraph Instructor, the four-dash Morse Code symbol meant "paragraph [drop a line]".Thomas H. White 19:28, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Untitled 

message: I added some history of the first telegraphed message a while back, but I'm still unclear about one thing... Did the original message sent by Sam Morse include a quesiton mark? or was it simply "WHAT HATH GOD WROUGHT" leaving the punctuation to be added by Vail when he received the message? Phauge 05:46, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks! Phauge 22:53, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  What hath god wrought? 

message: In a response to the obituary of Annie Goodrich Ellsworth, Alfred Vail's son, Stephen Vail wrote about THE FIRST TELEGRAPH MESSAGE.
 Lent (talk) 19:39, 22 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Message predating "What hath god wrougth ?" according to Stephen Vail 

message: Maybe I just don't know enough about Morse Code in general, but I don't see the point to this article. It really seems as if this should be merged with the regular Morse Code article. There is no European Morse Code article, and the Wabun Code article is short enough so that it could also be covered in the Morse Code article. Does anyone have a problem if I merge the articles into one? Phauge 06:08, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge with Morse Code? 

message: Some common prosigns used in radiotelegraphy today come directly from American Morse.
Commonly, the cipher -30- appears on wire service copy to indicate the end of a news article.  In American Morse, it would be sent as DiDiDiDahDiDaaaaaah.  Today, the letters SK run together (DiDiDiDahDiDah) are customarily sent at the end of a message. It should be noted that the prosign “SK” is used by some hearing impaired persons before hanging-up from a TDD telephone call.
Telegraphic laughter DiDiDit DiDit (HI HI) can confuse a newcomer to radiotelegraphy; in American Morse DiDiDiDit Dit Dit would be HO HO which makes far more sense.
There is no ampersand in international or continental Morse code; however, in American Morse it was Dit DiDiDit.  Today, many radio telegraphers use the prosing ES to mean “and”.
The use of ciphers such as “73” for “Best Wishes” and “88” for “Hugs and kisses” also date to landline telegraphy where commonly used salutations and signatures were given numbers to help speed traffic on the line  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Solderinggunslinger (talk • contribs) 17:14, 20 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  American / Continental Morse code crossovers 

message: The 'double hyphen' is used as a 'breaksign', and not "equals" (ref. Mills, M., G3ACC "The Morse Code for Radio Amateurs", 6th ed. London. Radio Society of Great Britain (RSGB), 1970.) Breaksign is used to end a sentence. Example: Ge om es tks fer call= vy psed to meet u fer first time= ur sigs rst 579 imi 579 hr QTH is Dulwich imi Dulwich S.E. London=
The American codes for slash (/) and Fraction Bar are the same -..-.
I suspect that either one of these is bogus (and should be removed from the table) or that the table entries should be combined, as in: slash/fraction bar (/) -..-.
Nice coverage of an important historical subject. BTW, to whomever commented that American Morse code is a variant of Morse code, please note that American Morse code is the original, and predates the modern variant known as International Morse code! ;-)
Al
AJ4RF  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.148.94.222 (talk) 18:12, 25 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Possible Corrections 

message: Are these lengths also specified? If yes, their lengths shall be mentioned in the article. --RokerHRO (talk) 15:39, 2 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Length of the gaps between letters, words, sentences