[TriLUG] OT: amateur radio bug has bit again

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

On Tue, 8 Jul 2008, Greg Brown wrote:

> http://www.c2.com/morse/
>
> (my first run under OS 10.5.4 is providing some bizarre results..)

there's a bit of a deal about learning morse: everyone has 
their method. However only a few variations work and these 
were all figured out early in WWII, when the military needed 
lots of operators real fast who could copy code for hours at 
an end in places with background noise levels comparable to 
an iron foundry.

The program you mention requires you to type a letter before 
they'll send another. No-one sends like that - neither in 
the exam nor on the air, where the characters just keep 
coming. If you miss a letter, you drop it and keep going. 
Good operators follow along a couple of letters behind (I 
can't do this myself). It is relatively rare to have a 
keyboard when you're receiving morse. So I'd get a program 
where you mimic the exam and most operating situations.

o write out the letters with a pen and paper

o let the characters keep coming

Joe
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