Telegraph Service to close

[Wisarut]

Now, CAT PCL is plannign to SCRAP the ancient telegraph services in 2006
because virtually nobody except the Bank clerks andthe loan sharks have used telegraph services. ...

Even Money Order by telegraphs has been reduced from 10000 customers a day to less than 100 custombers a day [including international services]

The Money Expense of Telegraphs paid to Thailand postal Services is about
25 million Baht a Month

Details is here:
http://www.mthai.com/webboard/5/133190.html

[airlana]

A sign of the times with not many countries still having telegraph services.

The Thai postal system dates back to 1881 when King Chulalongkorn gave permission for the establishment of a Local Letter Post in Bangkok.
The Dept of Posts & Telegraphs was established two years later.
A private system of Court Mail within the Royal Palaces predates this.

The first telegraph service was to have commenced in 1869 with the concession being granted to two foreigners. However the service failed to materialise and in 1875 the Government set up its own Telegraph Department.
The first service was Bangkok to Samut Prakan a distance of about 45km.

From there the post and telegraph system continued to expand throughout the country, very much interwoven with the development of rail and air services. Foreign mail for many years was sent by ship to Singapore for onforwarding.

The history of post/telegraph services in Thailand is quite interesting and in many respects kept pace with the times.

airlana
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[GWR]

Got this from an informative .PDF file about the 'Post & Telegraph Dept's history. Some nice grainy sepia pics too:-

www.ptd.go.th/Blue_Sky/sky_eng_pdf/Post 4.pdf

Radiotelegraph in Thailand was employed for the first in 1907.The Royal Thai Navy initiated the use of Marconi radiotelegraph transmitter and receiver acquired from England. In 1912,the word 'Radio' was widely used in Thailand as there was no available Thai translation until King Rama VI created the word 'Wittayu' being identical to the word 'Wijju' used to replace 'Radio'.

King Rama VI graciously had the Navy Ministry establish two permanent radiotelegraph stations; one at Tambon Sala Daeng in Bangkok and another one at Songkhla. His Majesty attended the official opening of the first permanent radiotelegraph station in Thailand at Tambon Sala Daeng on January 13, 1913; where he pressed the first call sign signal by himself and provided the inaugural royal telegraph to his younger sibling Khrom
Luang Lopburi Rames, the regent of Southern Thailand, who at that moment, presided at the Songkhla radiotelegraph station with the following message:-

'Greeting to you on this, which will be one of the most important day in our history.'

[GWR]

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[All Photos: Bangkok Post]

THE END OF AN ERA

Thailand's telegram service will close in May

PICHAYA SVASTI

The excitement of receiving a telegram will become a thing of the past on May 1, when Thailand's telegraph system will close, after operating for 133 years.

Sompol Chanprasert, a senior adviser to Thailand's telegraph operator CAT Telecom, revealed that the service is coming to an end due to lack of use and a lack of equipment and parts to maintain it.

"Telecoms equipment has a lifecycle - birth, growth, ageing and death - just like people. In the past, everyone used the telegraph because it was modern and fast, but it has been replaced by other technologies," he noted.

According to Sompol, people have shifted to faster and more efficient means of communicating, such as mobile phones, email, fax, the Express Mail Service (EMS) and on-line moneygrams.

CAT Telecom has continued to promote the telegraph service, but to no avail. About 20 years ago, it tried encouraging people to send greetings telegrams for birthdays, weddings and special occasions, as people did in other countries, but it failed because Thais prefer to attend such events in person.

In 2005, a three month survey at 12 post offices in Bangkok, and 20 outside the capital, confirmed the lack of popularity of the telegraph service - over the period of the survey there was a total of just 100 individual users.

"A telegram sent in the morning usually reaches its recipient in the evening, or the next morning, but a phone call takes just a few seconds and costs less. Today, Thailand has 50 million mobile phone numbers in a population of 65 million," he said.

In recent years, the service has failed in its real purpose of serving the general public, with 99 per cent of usage being generated by banks and loan companies, according to Sompol.

Each month, CAT Telecom earns only about 10,000 baht from private users and 500,000 baht from banks and firms, but since August 2003 it has paid Thailand Post 25 million baht a month to provide the service.

Due to reduced global demand for telegraph services, new equipment and parts to maintain old equipment have been discontinued by almost all manufacturers. At least 25 countries, including Norway, Sweden, Finland, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Kenya, Singapore, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Poland and Laos, have abolished their telegraph services.

Apichai Sornprom, a technician at CAT Telecom's Automatic Message Switching Centre in Bang Rak, agreed that finding software and parts to maintain the system is very difficult.

Postman Paijit Bunon, attached to the Central Post Office in Bang Rak, said, "Modern technology, the telephone and the Internet, have replaced telegrams. Fewer remote areas need the service. Actually, I would like to see it preserved, but very few people use it now."

When he started his job over 20 years ago, he delivered more than 100 telegrams a day; today that number has dwindled to just five or six.

Chatchawan Bunjobsuk, assistant head of the Metropolitan Postal Bureau South Department's Telecommunications Office, said the income from the service was as high as 100 million baht a year until 1997, when EMS became popular.

Even now, banks and loan companies still use the service because messages sent over the switched telegraph system (Telex messages) can be used as evidence in court. However, they can opt for registered mail or EMS, said Kanissorn Tongsub, head of the office.

The telegraph service has operated in Thailand since 1875.

According to Chatchawan, the telegraph was introduced to Siam by King Chulalongkorn (King Rama V) in 1875, before the postal service. A few years earlier, the king's father, King Mongkut, had approved an Englishman's request to invest and operate the service in Siam, but the project never took shape during that reign. A further offer from the same Englishman was refused by King Chulalongkorn, since the terms seemed unfair to Siam. For example, ownership of land within 1.6km from the route from Bangkok, along the west coast to Penang, had to be given to the investor.

Later, the UK and France competed for telegraph concessions in Siam, but King Chulalongkorn decided that Siam itself should invest in a telegraph system. The country's first telegraph line - between Bangkok and Samut Prakan - was established by the Defence Ministry in 1875, and the second - between Bangkok and Bang Pa-in, Ayutthaya - in 1878.

The service was originally reserved for official use only, at a price of one fueng (12 satang) per word. It was opened up for public use at the lower price of four ard (six satang) per word in 1883, when the Telegraph Department and the Post Department were established. In the same year, Siam's first overseas telegraph service between Bangkok and Saigon began.

The cost is currently one baht per word for ordinary telegrams and two baht per word for express telegrams.

The telegraph evolved from devices that used Morse code - the code that comprises a series of dots and dashes, devised by US artist and inventor Samuel Morse in the late 1830s. Then came sounders and teleprinters. The current system is called the computerised automatic message switching (AMS) system. Sending a telegram using Morse code used to take around 10 minutes, compared to around two minutes with the AMS system.

In the past, telegrams were sent by Morse code.

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Telegraph networks are connected with optic fibres and telephone cables over short distances and by microwave, the Internet, satellites and underwater cables for longer distances. There is also a radio marine service, formerly called the radiotelegraph. However, this service will be maintained for the safety of ships and vessels offshore, according to CAT Telecom senior adviser Sompol Chanprasert.

This expert is grateful for the telegraph, saying those who understand the telegraph system can catch up with many technologies, because all digital technologies developed from the telegraph.

To commemorate the end of the telegraph service, CAT Telecom plans to establish a telecoms museum displaying telegraphy and other telecoms equipment in a few years' time.

"In terms of evolution, the telegraph is a forerunner of modern communications technology. It is dying off, but will be remembered for the great benefit it brought to Thai society," Sompol said.

The Central Post Office in Bang Rak invites the public to send their last telegrams and see how the old telegraph devices work at its farewell exhibition in the last week of April. CAT Telecom is also preparing an telegraphy exhibition, provisionally set to run from April 1 to May 15.

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[GWR]

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Nostalgic memories

Thais have mixed feelings about the demise of the telegraph. Some consider it obsolete while others think it is still necessary for remote areas and in emergencies.

Teleprinters became widely used after Samarn Boonyarattaphan invented a bilingual Thai-English teleprinter called the S.P. Model, introduced between 1953 and 1954.

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Having worked with telegraphy for decades, Somrak Hemwimol, Kanissorn Tongsub and Chatchawan Bunjobsuk, executives of Thailand Post's Metropolitan Postal Bureau South Department, have cheerful and touching memories to share.

"The telegraph connected people. We were proud to deliver messages to those living in remote areas when they were happy or sad," Chatchawan remarks.

The three have some hilarious stories about distorted messages as a result of poorly delivered Morse-code signals.

"Sometimes, the message Por hai laew (Dad's fine) was heard, and sent, as Por tai laew (Dad's dead)," Chatchawan recalls.

The three flash smiles when they talk about the message Tha ma mai tong ma tha mai ma hai ma duan (If it comes, don't come. If it doesn't come, come urgently). In this case, only the recipient and the sender knew the hidden meaning. Actually, a woman wanted her husband to return home if her menstruation did not come.

However, when it came to hard times for poor customers, telegraph officers would lend them a helping hand.

"We paid for the messages when some people who had just lost their loved ones could not afford to send telegrams. We even raised funds to cover their travel expenses so that they could return home for the funerals," Kanissorn said.

In addition, telegraph offices nationwide, which opened 24/7 until 1997 and up to 8pm thereafter, served as resting points for rural travellers who lost their way on their trips to visit their relatives.

Cheewin Meesuwan, who has been working as a telegraph transmission officer since 1970, feels sad to have to bid farewell to the telegraph, which to him remains necessary for homes with no telephones.

"In emergencies, we telephone the post offices in the destinations to contact the recipients urgently before the telegrams arrive," he added.

At present, he handles only about 30 telegrams a day, most of which originate from loan companies. His regular individual customers are Japanese, who have a tradition of sending telegrams to wedding couples and mourners.

Kanissorn agreed that telegrams are still popular in India and Japan for congratulating people, especially newly-weds.

As the last chief of the Central Post Office's telegraph centre, Kanissorn admitted that he did not want to see the end of the telegraph service as it is cheap and helpful to needy people.

Vijit Prommee, a postman for 17 years, agreed, saying that remote areas with neither telephone nor Internet access still need telegraphy.

Some users share his opinion.

Sompong Plaikongsa, 43, of Thon Buri says that the service is still necessary for rural communities without electricity and telephones despite a decline in the number of such zones.

The last time he sent a telegram was when a friend had tried in vain to contact his family in a remote area of Si Sa Ket almost 20 years ago.

Narine Saywaka, a 46-year-old Chiang Mai native who has settled down in Bangkok, believes telegraphy will help in places without cellphone signals or when natural disasters or blackouts bring down the telephone and Internet systems.

But, for some people, the telegraph era is in the past.

Oi Wangkhiri, a 44-year-old waitress, said telegraphy had been a must for her mountainous rural village in Nakhon Thai district, Phitsanulok, until two years ago when mobile phones arrived.

Now, five houses whose owners paid 2,000 baht each for signal receivers serve as message centres for neighbours there.

Soon Jitchote, a 69-year-old housemaid in Bangkok, said her house in Si Sa Ket has no telephone but that people can leave messages with her relatives or neighbours who have telephones.

The last telegram she received came from her boss who wanted her to return from a short visit to Si Sa Ket following the death of a close relative 12 years ago.

For Bangkok-born restaurateur Chanthipa Nanthasakmongkol, 63, the time is ripe to put an end to telegrams - they always brought bad news to her that one of her husband's relatives was ill or dead.

Ya, a 42-year-old company worker in Bangkok, said she often communicated with her family in Surin via telegraphs while studying in Khon Kaen, 350km from Surin, since her house had no telephone then and "snail mail" was too slow in case of emergencies.

To her, telegrams meant both good and bad news. She liked to update her family about her test results and awards, while her family told her about her ill grandmother via telegraphs.

Vat, a company worker in his fifties, light-heartedly recalled that when he was a student in Bangkok, telegrams always brought good news that money was on the way from his family in Songkhla.

Surachai Chanklom of the Central Post Office's telegraph centre said that he felt happy with the good news, and saddened by the bad, in every telegram, but that he is obliged to keep every message confidential.

"It will be sad for me to be apart from the telegraph - it is a long-time friend. I don't want see it end, but I have to accept reality," he said.
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[Wisarut]

Khom CHad Luek - Sunday 30 March 2008 is telliogn the story about the last days of Telegraph ... before teh final day on 1 May 2008 take alook here:

The last telegtraph station is at GPO in Bang rak area

The expenditure of teleghraph is 300 million Baht a year while the maiun revenue is to send the financial records to the courts whcih earn 6 million Baht in Year 2007 ... from 150,429 court telegraphs .. the foreign teleghrtaph is 20000 Baht and there asre only about 8,963 domestic telegraphs ...

http://www.komchadluek.net/2008/03/31/x_sun_t006_196225.php?news_id=196225

[GWR]

OFF THE BENCH
Witness to history, telegraph service set to shut down
Published on April 19, 2008
Jeerawat Na Thalang
The Nation

During a recent visit to the Central Post Office on Bangrak Road, officials there proudly told me about the history of the post office building, which has been deemed to be part of the nation's cultural heritage.

"There's a bomb underneath the car parking lot," an official said, pointing to the parking space in front of the building. The bomb was dropped during World War II but it did not explode. Officials didn't know how to retrieve the bomb without setting it off, so they left it there after the war ended.

The monolith building was designed according to old European architectural styles and its floor is decorated with tiles from Italy. The tiles may have darkened over the years but they give a vintage look to the interior of what is known as both the Bangrak Post Office and the Central Post Office, Bangkok South.

The building has witnessed the fast-changing pace of communications technology, from the old days when postmen wore neatly ironed shirts with shining stripes and rode bicycles to deliver mail to more modern times when people on different continents can communicate via email within seconds.

From next month, this old building will witness another historical event in the evolution of technology. The telegraph service will cease to exist, with a new generation turning to new methods of communication like e-mail.

Telegraph was once one of the most popular ways to send quick messages. People used the telegraph wire to deliver hot news, such as the results of a job interview, news of a recent death or claims for debt payment. At its peak, from 1987 to 1992, more than 500,000 messages were sent by telegraph each month. But that number has declined to some 8,000 this month. CAT decided to close down the service because the cost of maintaining it was not worthwhile.

The telegraph service came to Thailand in 1875. At that time, both the French and the British offered to construct telegraph lines in Thailand. The French offered to connect the line to Saigon, while the British wanted to run a line from Bangkok to Tavoy, Burma. King Rama V eventually turned down the offers from both countries and decided that Thailand would construct its own line. Thailand launched its first line in the East, connecting Bangkok and Samut Prakan. The service was later expanded to Prachin Buri to connect with the Indochinese line in Battambang in Cambodia and Saigon in Vietnam. Later on, the service was expanded throughout Thailand.

The telegraph was in fact part of several historical events. On January 17, 1928, the Post and Telegraph Department launched the international radiotelegraphy line for the first time by using a short-wave transmission machine to send a signal to Berlin. King Rama VII sent a telegraph to the Thai ambassador in Berlin saying:

SIAMESE MINISTER BERLIN

GREETING AM GLAD TO BE ABLE TO SEND FIRST MESSAGE DIRECT BANGKOK BERLIN RADIO

PRAJADHIPOK R

During World War II, the international telegraph service - which came through Manila - was halted in December 1941. Later on, the Thai government tried to negotiate the re-launching of the service via a neutral country. On April 6, 1942, the international telegraph service was reopened as the service was connected via Geneva, Switzerland.

Postal staff said that when they were students at the Post and Telegraph School, Morse Code class was their toughest because they had to memorise how to send the code accurately. An urban legend at the school had it that some telegraph experts could receive and memorise four messages at the same time before delivering them all later.

Officials said they received incomprehensible messages frequently, which they suspected were sent by lovers. Unfortunately, quite a number of the messages sent were death notices.

"It combined the art of finger-tapping and the accuracy of the code," said Saneth Pangsapha, the 59-year-old head of the Bangkok South Post Office in Bangrak. He demonstrated how to tap the code with his flexible wrist. "Telegraph is very classic. It requires both technical skill and a human touch," he said while complaining that his wrist has turned "dusty" because he cannot move his fingers to tap the code as fast as he used to.

These days, the telegraph service section consists of 25 staff members, a reduction from some 300 when the service was more popular. The telegraph section is located on the upper floor of the Bangrak Post Office. Morse Code is no longer applied. Officials use a computerised system to send telegraphs.

Consumers can, however, fill out the telegraph forms, which they can collect from the ground floor of the post office. Pieces of the brown paper form available in a box obviously shows that the form has not been reprinted in years.

Many years ago, the telegraph office wanted to change the image of the telegraph service. "People were frightened when they received a telegraph. They thought chances were good they were about to receive death news," said Kanissorn Tongsap, another post office official. The post office introduced the idea of telegraphs sent for "friendship and goodwill". However, the campaign was not quite successful as people turned to other types of technology to send messages, such as SMS.

Thailand is not alone in closing the service, as other countries have also ended the service recently. "The other factor forcing us to close the service is that spare parts needed for telegraph equipment are no longer available," said Kanissorn. Some countries such as France, however, used telegraph services during the Iraq War because the services were deemed safer. Who knows, the abandoned telegraph poles along several main roads may be dusted off and used again.

Members of the public are invited to join the telegraph exhibition in the final week of April at the Central Post Office in Bangrak.
http://www.nationmultimedia.com/2008/04/19/opinion/opinion_30071069.php

[rodfaithai]

Got this from an informative .PDF file about the 'Post & Telegraph Dept's history. Some nice grainy sepia pics too:-

www.ptd.go.th/Blue_Sky/sky_eng_pdf/Post 4.pdf


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Jan 13, 1913 Sala Daeng Radio Telegraph Station opened.

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In this map shown the Radio Telegraph station in Songkhla said in the history.

[Yappofloyd]

I must admit reading this thread, and the two Bkk Post articles, that I was very surprised that a Telegraph service was still offered at major Post Offices. Sign...one of those services the romantic would love to keep but the modernist & economist rationalists determines is defunct.

R.I.P. the telegram
The final message went out from the General Post Office last Wednesday, and with it a lot of history, writes Piyaporn Wongruang - BKK Post 05/05/08
Thongchai Pathumvit and Kanissorn Tongsub had already worked more than eight hours handling telegram message slips, but people continued to line up at the General Post Office to send their final telegram last Wednesday. CAT Telecom officially closed the service after 133 years, citing a decline in its popularity and a lack of profit.

While the telegram service is now a thing of the past, quietly gone with it is the knowledge and expertise associated with the country's first modern public communication service. It was nurtured and passed on to many postmen over the years, and many are sorry and disheartened it has ended. "We are feeling hollow and sorry because the thing we have been familiar with the most is over. Some of us still cannot get over what is happening," said Mr Kanissorn, head of the telecommunications office supervising nine telegraph clerks at the central office.

The telegraph was the first modern form of public communication for Thai people and was introduced during the reign of King Rama V. It was put in service about eight years before the postal service, another public communication means introduced as part of the country's modernisation. During its first years of operation, the telegraph service was largely based on Morse code, comprising a series of dots and dashes to form words.

Telegraph officials normally spent about two years in postal schools, learning postal related businesses with the stress on telegraph related businesses, including Morse code. They also had to learn the nation's postal codes, memorise and use them accurately. Good telegraph officials, Mr Kanissorn said, also had to be good at keeping people's secrets. This was particularly important at a time when the telegraph was still popular among business owners.

Officials at the central post office saw the peak of the service's popularity about 30 years ago, when they were required to work around the clock in three separate shifts. During that period, Morse code was still in use, and there were only a few communication channels, including telephones, available to the general public, Mr Kanissorn recalled. However, the service started to decline in popularity during the last 10 years, when the use of telegrams dropped sharply. According to the records of Thailand Post Co Ltd, telegraph counters nationwide accepted some 2.9 million telegrams in 1999. The number dropped to only about 800,000 four years later.

This year, Mr Kanissorn and his team handled only about 100 telegrams a day, mostly containing debt-collecting messages. This was because telegrams could be used as evidence in court, and that was the reason some sectors kept using the telegram, he said. "If you asked me whether the service is necessary, I personally would say it still is," said Mr Kanissorn. "Besides some banks, I still believe there still are people in remote areas where even phones are not there for them."

Since the service has been closed, most of the 100 telegraph officials will be transferred to other departments in Thailand Post, according to Thailand Post board member Omsin Chivapruek. The telegraphic equipment would be kept in a museum, he said. Mr Kanissorn said he has not yet decided what he would do next. Mr Thongchai, meanwhile, has decided to keep on working for Thailand Post for another six years in the accounting department until he reaches retirement. Min Kolkijkamjorn, a 72-year-old former naval officer who was also familiar with Morse code, said it was a pity the country did away with the telegram service because of a loss in profits.

He said the knowledge and expertise in the telegraph service should be maintained as it could be useful in case digital communications collapsed. Instead of closing it, he said, relevant agencies should consider reforming it. "I used the telegraph service regularly and I am sorry to see it is closed," he said. "We may have to ask ourselves whether we should allow this service to die just because we are too concerned with losses and profits."

[Yappofloyd]

Telegraph service closes after 133 years - ANCHALEE KONGRUT Bkk Post 01/05/08
After 133 years, the curtain came down on the telegraph service yesterday in a ceremony which saw several thousand people bid it farewell. ''The last chapter of 133 years of the Thai telegraph will be in the memory of Thais forever,'' was the last message sent by telegraph, by Information and Communications Technology Minister Mun Patanotai from the General Post Office. It was sent to 40,000 people who had reserved a final telegram, according to the Thai News Agency.

On the final day parents, teenagers, the elderly and first-time users packed the headquarters of Thailand Post Plc in Bang Rak district, waiting for hours to send final telegrams to friends, family and loved ones, and to buy souvenirs. The number of telegrams sent across the country in the final week of the service, which began 133 years ago with a morse key and ended with the teleprinter, rose to 50,000 _ the total usually sent in six months. The public enthusiasm was overwhelming, said Wiboon Sereechaiporn, assistant vice-president of the corporate and marketing communications department.

''It is in the character of Thais to often feel regret when things that once belonged to them leave them for good.'' Among those turning up on the final day was Krisada Limthongtip, 28, who sent telegrams to his friends and family members. ''It is my first and last time for telegrams,'' said Mr Krisada as his fingers constantly punched the keyboard of his smart phone. ''I don't need to use it. I email and skype. But I came here today to soak up the [nostalgic] feeling,'' he said. Actor Supravat Pattamasuit was also at the General Post Office. ''It is a walk down memory lane and I feel nostalgic. I wish this service would remain. But the world changes,'' said the 69-year-old, who sent his message saying ''Long Live the King'' by telegraph to Chitralada Palace.

The service peaked in 1995, when 12 million telegrams were sent across the country. Last year, only 600,000 telegrams were sent, most of them by commercial banks and debt-collecting agencies. Thailand Post finally terminated the service at 8pm after shouldering a loss of 300 million baht a year for five consecutive years. About 1,200 telegraph service staff will be transferred to new positions.

As the telegraph becomes history, Thailand Post officials and a member of the National Telecommunication Commission (NTC) remain optimistic that letters will not be next to succumb to speedy communications technology like the internet. ''We once feared letters would disappear when there were telephones. But this form of communication stays and even becomes more valuable in terms of sentimental value,'' said NTC commissioner Sethaporn Cusripituck. ''We are not worried. People may send emails but the commercial sector still use mail for their business,'' Mr Wiboon said. ''People send more postcards. Letters are now special occasions.''

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[Ahoerstemeier]

Something which I wonder reading about the termination of the telegraph service - was there a Morse code for the Thai alphabet? Actually, I never knew it had Morse codes for non-latin alphabets before, just when I now checked Wikipedia I found this list http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Other_alphabets_in_Morse_code, but it does not include Thai. Can anyone help me to add the Thai Morse codes to that list?

[rodfaithai]

Something which I wonder reading about the termination of the telegraph service - was there a Morse code for the Thai alphabet? Actually, I never knew it had Morse codes for non-latin alphabets before, just when I now checked Wikipedia I found this list http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Other_alphabets_in_Morse_code, but it does not include Thai. Can anyone help me to add the Thai Morse codes to that list?

Here they are...

http://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/รหัสมอร์ส

Thai morse code exist for a long time.
They were published in ARRL Handbook years after years.

http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&placement=ap-search-go-btn.gif&keywords=The%20ARRL%20Handbook%20for%20Radio%20Com munications&tag=thairadioamateur&index=blended&Go.x=4&Go.y=13&link%5Fcode=qs&tag-id=thairadioamateur


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[rodfaithai]

Morse code for the Thai alphabet

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Reference : http://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/รหัสมอร์ส