[CQ-Contest] origin of "es" in Morse code (cw)?

[Art Boyars]

I've not got the time to research and document it, but the story I heard in
my Morse youth was that one of the Morse codes (American, Continental,
whatever) back then the symbol for ampersand was dot-space-dot-dot-dot.
The ampersand was used even in formal writing, and so merited its own
symbol, similar to period and comma.  The "space" was not a letter space,
but a symbol element -- that form of Morse used dots, dashes, and spaces
(two bauds??).

73, Art K3KU

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On Mon, Oct 5, 2020 at 8:52 AM Douglas Zwiebel <dougzzz at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks Barry, but then are we to assume to the documentation that showed
> "first and main" street address using "ES" was documentation made by a
> Morse operator?  Seems like a stretch, but I guess anything is possible.
> But wouldn't it be faster to actually write & instead of "es" on a ledger
> sheet?
>
> Q
>
> On Mon, Oct 5, 2020 at 8:20 AM Barry W2UP <w2up.co at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Note in this reference, which is supposed to be from 1920, ES is listed
> as
> > the code for the ampersand (just after Z).
> > https://ethw.org/w/images/b/bf/Morse_Telegraphy_1920.pdf
> >
> > Barry W2UP
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Oct 5, 2020 at 6:03 AM Douglas Zwiebel <dougzzz at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> I was just watching something on TV about the assassination of Lincoln
> and
> >> noted that at one point in the show, the address (which I can't remember
> >> exactly) was (say) "first and main," but it was listed at "1st es Main."
> >>
> >> Boy did that get me thinking.
> >>
> >> I tried Google, but nothing.
> >>
> >> Any help?
> >>
> >> de Doug KR2Q
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