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    dahs. Morse code is named after Samuel Morse, one of the early developers of the system adopted for electrical telegraphy. International Morse code encodes...
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    Morse code abbreviations are used to speed up Morse communications by foreshortening textual words and phrases. Morse abbreviations are short forms, representing...
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    Procedural signs or prosigns are shorthand signals used in Morse code telegraphy, for the purpose of simplifying and standardizing procedural protocols...
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    American Morse Code — also known as Railroad Morse—is the latter-day name for the original version of the Morse Code developed in the mid-1840s, by Samuel...
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    Wabun code (和文モールス符号, wabun mōrusu fugō, Japanese text in Morse code) is a form of Morse code used to send Japanese language in kana characters. Unlike...
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    suffixed it with the standard Morse question mark UD (  ▄ ▄ ▄▄▄ ▄▄▄ ▄ ▄ ). Although Q-codes were created when radio used Morse code exclusively, they continued...
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    This is a summary of the use of Morse code to represent alphabets other than Latin. The Greek Morse code alphabet is very "similar" to the Latin alphabet...
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    Country calling codes, country dial-in codes, international subscriber dialing (ISD) codes, or most commonly, telephone country codes are telephone number...
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    SOS (category Morse code)
    in Morse code Problems playing this file? See media help. SOS is a Morse code distress signal (  ▄ ▄ ▄ ▄▄▄ ▄▄▄ ▄▄▄ ▄ ▄ ▄ ), used internationally, originally...
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  • A telegraph code is one of the character encodings used to transmit information by telegraphy. Morse code is the best-known such code. Telegraphy usually...
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  • CQD (category Morse code)
    CQD in Morse code Problems playing this file? See media help. CQD (transmitted in Morse code as   ▄▄▄ ▄ ▄▄▄ ▄   ▄▄▄ ▄▄▄ ▄ ▄▄▄   ▄▄▄ ▄ ▄ ) is one of the...
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    middle age Morse contributed to the invention of a single-wire telegraph system based on European telegraphs. He was a co-developer of Morse code in 1837...
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  • discontinued in favor of everyday language. APCO first proposed Morse code brevity codes in the June 1935 issue of The APCO Bulletin, which were adapted...
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  • minute, often used as a measurement of the speed of typing, reading or Morse code sending and receiving. Since words vary in length, for the purpose of...
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  • American Morse code was still in use. It is so called after one example (here given in International Morse but most likely originating in American Morse):...
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  • mandatory carrier selection code consisting of one or more digits Brazil (see Telephone numbers in Brazil#International calls) Cambodia (001 – Telecom...
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  • CQ (call) (category Morse code)
    undersea cables and landlines, particularly used by those communicating in Morse code, (  ▄▄▄ ▄ ▄▄▄ ▄   ▄▄▄ ▄▄▄ ▄ ▄▄▄ ), but also by voice operators, to make...
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    The International Code of Signals (INTERCO) is an international system of signals and codes for use by vessels to communicate important messages regarding...
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    distress signal. Also signallable on a ship's whistle using Morse code. See International Code of Signals. Historically, in a CAM ship during World War II...
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    airport code or location indicator is a four-letter code designating aerodromes around the world. These codes, as defined by the International Civil Aviation...
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  • Inspector Morse is a British detective drama television series based on a series of novels by Colin Dexter. It starred John Thaw as Detective Chief Inspector...
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    transcontinental railroads were built, each station was assigned its own two-letter Morse code: VR for Vancouver TZ for Toronto QB for Quebec City WG for Winnipeg SJ...
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    The (International) Radiotelephony Spelling Alphabet, commonly known as the NATO phonetic alphabet, is the most widely used set of clear code words for...
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  • therefore not binary codes themselves but may be applied to binary codes to reduce storage needs. Morse code is a variable-length telegraphy code, which traditionally...
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  • The QSA code and QRK code are interrelated and complementary signal reporting codes for use in wireless telegraphy (Morse code). An enhanced format, SINPO...
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    Chinese,” is rendered into the code as 0022 2429 0207 1873. It is transmitted using Morse code. Receivers decode the Morse code to get a sequence of digits...
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  • International broadcasting, in a limited extent, began during World War I, when German and British stations broadcast press communiqués using Morse code...
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    Alfred Vail (category Morse code)
    Telephone & Telegraph. Alfred Vail and Samuel Morse collaborated in the invention of Morse code. The "Morse code" that went into operational use after Vail...
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    an operator who knows Morse code. With automatic radiotelegraphy teleprinters at both ends use a code such as the International Telegraph Alphabet No...
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  • Inspector Morse is a British television crime drama, starring John Thaw and Kevin Whately, for which eight series were broadcast between 1987 and 2000...
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