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A Morse code light is light in which appearances of light of two clearly different durations (dots and dashes) are grouped to represent a character or characters in the Morse Code. For example, "Mo(A)" is a light in which in each period light is shown for a short period (dot) followed by a long period (dash), the Morse Code for "A".
Chart of the Morse code 26 letters and 10 numerals [1]. This Morse key was originally used by Gotthard railway, later by a shortwave radio amateur [2]. Morse code is a telecommunications method which encodes text characters as standardized sequences of two different signal durations, called dots and dashes, or dits and dahs.
The procedure signs below are compiled from the official specification for Morse Code, ITU-R M.1677, International Morse Code, [1] while others are defined the International Radio Regulations for Mobile Maritime Service, including ITU-R M.1170, [8] ITU-R M.1172, [4] and the Maritime International Code of Signals, [5] with a few details of their ...
A signal lamp (sometimes called an Aldis lamp or a Morse lamp [1]) is a visual signaling device for optical communication by flashes of a lamp, typically using Morse code. The idea of flashing dots and dashes from a lantern was first put into practice by Captain Philip Howard Colomb , of the Royal Navy, in 1867.
What is now the International Code of Signals was drafted in 1855 by the British Board of Trade and published in 1857 as the Commercial Code. It came in two parts: the first containing universal and international signals, and the second British signals only. Eighteen separate signal flags (see chart) were used to make over 70,000 possible messages.
Visual mnemonic charts have been devised over the ages. Baden-Powell included one in the Girl Guides handbook [1] in 1918. A contemporary Morse code chart. Here is a more up-to-date version, ca. 1988: Other visual mnemonic systems have been created for Morse code, mapping the elements of the Morse code characters onto pictures for easy ...
1911 Chart of the Standard American Morse Characters. 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 Morse and Alfred Vail for their electric telegraph.
Morse code abbreviations are not the same as prosigns.Morse abbreviations are composed of (normal) textual alpha-numeric character symbols with normal Morse code inter-character spacing; the character symbols in abbreviations, unlike the delineated character groups representing Morse code prosigns, are not "run together" or concatenated in the way most prosigns are formed.