CQ100 - QSONET - Correction!
David
information about it in the FILES section of this group.
I made a comment that this program could not be used with a hand key.
I was wrong.
This program can be used with a hand key by connecting a code practice
oscillator to the audio input jack of your computer.
I had actually done this and had forgotten about it.
I believe I had used CW.com to generate the audio tone off line (not
connected via the CW.com server) and then the CQ100 program accepted
the signal and rebroadcast it.
Some of the people who heard me were surprised that I was able to do
that and I explained how.
I have a box which uses the serial connection to interface with a
telegraph sounder and a hand key (straight key, Vibroplex or
sideswiper - or even external keyer). There is a program called
"Morse KOB" for Windows which can be used in American Morse or
International Morse Code. American Morse was the code used on wire
lines in the USA, Canada, and parts of Australia where the original
Samual F.B. Morse system was used.
International - or Continental Code - was used in Europe and elswhere.
I am not sure about Mexico and South America - I would suspect they
might have used American Morse on wire lines.
During the 1910s and 1920s USA radiotelegraph stations such as CC and
PH used American Morse for USA ships. They were required to be
certified in Continental Code also and used that code for
communications with non-USA ships.
>From list member Thomas White, his wonderful history site contains
(among other things) this wonderful page of early WT communications.
http://earlyradiohistory.us/sec005.htm
I have found an error in a quote about SOS being the same as S5S (the
figure 5 is in the middle) in American Morse code. It is indeed so,
but the reason is because three dashes in American Morse is the number
"5" and in Continental is the letter "O". I have advised Mr. White of
this error which I found on two pages of his fabulous web site.
73
DR