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Posted by Ed Kiser on September 01, 2004 at 03:41:08 from 152.163.252.98 user Kisered.

In Reply to: Now, Now John posted by Brad Henry on August 31, 2004 at 22:25:52:

Thanks, Brad, for digging through the mystery of Morse. Your translation was what I intended, but sometimes when doing code, one's memory is not always right, so there for a bit I thought maybe I had misconscrewed the code. It was done from memory; I did not try to look it up. so it was taking a bit of a chance.

Nothing like a little refresher drill on Morse.

Interesting to note that with all the code and signalling done by our Ransome characters, the two-flag semaphore got into Dick's notebook, but the MORSE code did not make it. Ransome never gave us that Morse code. His characters used it, as when the D's got to the North Pole and signalled "N" and "P" over and over again, which Nancy saw and understood. This was a very important communication, and it was done in Morse.

And in case anyone is looking for that code in Dick's notebook, and cannot find it, here we go...


The alphabet
.- A --. G -- M ... S -.-- Y
-... B .... H -. N - T --.. Z
-.-. C .. I --- O ..- U
-.. D .--- J .--. P ...- V
. E -.- K --.- Q .-- W
..-. F .-.. L .-. R -..- X

Numbers
.---- 1 -.... 6
..--- 2 --... 7
...-- 3 ---.. 8
....- 4 ----. 9
..... 5 ----- 0

Punctuation marks
Period (.) .-.-.- (AAA) or (RK)
("And THAT's the END of THAT.")

Comma (,) --..-- (MIM) or (GW)
(Ran into a ditch, so had to slow down for that,
then resumed speed.)

Question-mark (?) ..--.. (IMI) or (UD)
(Raised creases on forehead, between two eyes,
as a questioning type of expression)

Colon (:) ---... (OS)
Hyphen (-) -....- (BA) or (DU)
Apostrophe .----. (WG)
Slash -..-. (DN)

(The next two: both come in pairs.)
parens -.--.- (KK)
Quotation .-..-. (RR)

Special meanings:
-.-. --.- (C Q) Hello, anyone?
.-.-. (AR) End of Message, ready for next message
...-.- (VA) End of Transmission, signing off, Goodbye
...... (SS) I made mistake; will start over with this same word again
NOTE: in some reference materials, this "oops" symbol is
listed as having EIGHT dots, not six.

Replies sent by receiver:
-.- (K) Ready to receive, short for "OK"
--..-. (MIN) Wait a minute
..--.. (IMI) (Same as "?") stop sending, please repeat, no understand
.-. (R) Acknowledge, message received ("Roger")

Now everybody knows...

Have fun with this.

Ed Kiser, South Florida




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