k, k is dash dot dash in morse code.
k, k is dash dot dash in morse code.
what is dash dot dash in morse code?
k , k
the back cover of the record jacket (made to look like the back of a picture frame) also contains "secret messages" in the form of three aged and weathered stickers. one is the track listing and the other two contain mock names of the retailer and manufacturer of the frame. these names are anagrams of the 4 band members: t.d. ryan (r. tandy), f.y.j. fennel (jeff lynne), g.u. ruttock (k. groucutt) and e.v. nabbe (bev bevan). the record sleeve also contains a "secret message". the front and back has a string of dots and dashes that is actually morse code and repeats "e l o": e (one dot), l (dot dash dot dot) and o (dash dash dash).
secret messages
although some of the prosigns as-written appear to be simply two adjacent letters, "most" prosigns are transmitted as digraphs that have no spacing between the patterns that represent the "combined" letters, and are most commonly written with a single bar over the merged letters (if more than one single character) to indicate this. the difference in the transmission is subtle, but the difference in meaning is gross. for example, the prosign () indicates that the receiving morse operator should space down one line, but the two separate letter sign or abbreviation aa () indicates either the voice procedure words "all after", used to indicate that part of the previously transmitted message needs to be re-transmitted or has the same meaning as the voice procedure word "unknown station". the difference in representation between the morse code prosign and the separate letter signs is the presence or absence of an inter-letter space between the two "dot dash dot dash" sequences".
prosigns for morse code