[GreenKeys] Morse Printer?

[Richard Knoppow]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brooke Clarke" <brooke at pacific.net>
To: <Greenkeys at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2011 5:40 PM
Subject: [GreenKeys] Morse Printer?


> Hi:
>
> Picked this up on eBay, but neither the seller or myself 
> knows what it is.  Do you?
> http://www.prc68.com/I/MorseDecoding.shtml
>
> Not sure if it's for decoding or more likely for sending 
> Morse and printing a paper tape in the process.
>
> -- 
> Have Fun,

     What ever it is the code chart on the side is 
interesing. It shows some European characters, CH and N with 
a swiggle over it and I think U with an umlaut over it. 
Also, the punctuation is the old version, not sure when this 
was changed and the old version still shows up in much later 
books with code charts. The main change was the Period which 
was .. .. .. which was changed to .-.-.-. formerly the comma 
and the comma became --..-- which had been the exclamation 
point, which was dropped. This chart has this old version of 
the code. Now, I think the changes were made by 
international agreement sometime around the early or 
mid-1930's but it still shows up in much later books, for 
instance, _Reference Data for Radio Engineers_ 4h edition, 
published in 1956!
So, its possible this device could have been made long after 
the code was officially changed. Also, some of the 
characters have small numbers beside them in brackets, 
another puzzle.
     Another point is that the appearance of a code card on 
the side suggests the machine was intended for people who 
might not know the code. Very curious and I also would like 
some authoritative answer to what it is.


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Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles
WB6KBL
dickburk at ix.netcom.com