[Steltek]

Given this is early Morse code, I wonder if these question-answer bits are actually Q-codes being exchanged rather than those exact words being transmitted.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q_code#All_services_(QRA%E2%80...

[maxerickson]

Checking the dates, no.

Carrington Event was in 1859, the first Q codes in the early 1900s.