Don't know morse code and proud!

[ColdFusion]

Don\'t know morse code and proud!

I started sailing in 1999 after chartering stinkies for holidays for a number of years (with no training /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif). Since then I've done Comp Crew, Dayskipper and Yachtmaster and at no point has any RYA tuition included Morse Code (I understand it used to be taught but was dropped from the YM syllabus). Communication technology has moved on. I don't want to learn Morse because AFAIK there's no longer any need for it. ...Other than to post messages on Scuttlebutt for other likeminded old salts. Forgive me if I don't contribute but I can't be bothered/have better things to do than to decifer your posts.

 

[Stingo]

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... .... .- -- . (Shame)

 

[Sans Bateau]

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Its a bit like trying to keep a black and white television going...

No point anymore

 

[westernsailor]

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Try this web site - it actually works.

http://www.scphillips.com/morse/trans.html

 

[Evadne]

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And there was me thinking you might all actually know how to read and write in morse. Does that mean that Jimi isnae fluid in German and Afrikaans either?

 

[PhilF]

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cool

 

[Solitaire]

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[ColdFusion]

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So now the secret is out - I bet that translator has taken a few hits today /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
I wonder how many who post here genuinely know morse? Not many I guess /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
Hillarious!

 

[aitchw]

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No, he's fluid in beer and Scotch!

 

[Alistairr]

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[ColdFusion]

Re: Don\'t know morse code and proud!

For some reason that won't translate. But something tells me you already knew that!

 

[BobPrell]

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I would no longer try to learn it. It was a code devised to suit the characteristics of one particular transmission medium, and was learned and made much of by a group of professionals whose skill has now been rendered obsolete by more modern technology. A little while ago I came across the "tap code" used by POWs during the Viet Nam conflict and probably in other situations too. Messages were spelled out using a simple code.

You can read about it if you google "tap code".

The beauty of it is that it is a "self teaching" system. I think it could be used in an emergency with very little prior practice. I intend to try an exercise with it at a sailing club novelty night, to see how people manage with it.

Imagine a 5x5 matrix of letters. There is no letter "K". To send a letter, tap the row number, pause, then tap the column number.

col1 2 3 4 5
row 1 a b c d e
row 2 f g h i j
row 3 l m n o p
row 4 q r s t u
row 5 v w x y z

so tap,tap, pause, tap,tap,tap = "h"

It is flexible because any action (wave of hand, flash of light, rap of knuckles on wall,) can be used as a "tap". In a legendary case, POWs used the push of a broom to send a message when they had been forbidden to speak.

cheers Bob