Morse Code Question

[longjohnsadler]

No!
Yer IQs never in double figures?
Er only jokin'!

 

[Bergman]

I think the idea is that spaces in the right place make morse much easier to read. And that applies to morse being sent by wireless as well. Usually people put a / between words and perhaps 2 or 3 spaces between letters

_... . ... _ / _ _... ..._ _

Like that

 

[Bergman]

Well done Bob good on yer.

I think its a huge mistake to have dropped the morse requirement from the Ham license - really now difficult to separate from CB. And users miss out on such a sense of achievement with your first QSO on CW - particularly on a homebrew rig.

One aspect of morse that is often overlooked is that its much easier to communicate with non English speakers in morse (and vice versa - if you see what I mean)

Just as a BTB the correct term for morse code was CCITT signalling system No 1 - Not sure if it still is, but I always thought that was a rather good tribute.

A further BTB I watched "A night to remember" over the Xmas break and the morse sending was excellent to listen to - they had verbatim copy of what was actually sent on the night - wonderful!

 

[peterb]

There's an assumption here that Morse is only used for communications. But in common with many other safe water buoys, Woodbridge Haven buoy at the mouth of the River Deben flashes Mo(A). If you don't know some Morse, how will you recognise it? And what about Racons?

 

[Sgeir]

great wi' eggs, but Dr Bob says they're badfurme

 

[stephenh]

Morse traffic used to be on 500 khz, a listening watch was kept for 3 mins before quarter past the hour and a quarter to. Thus the green splodges on old ships clocks ( as against the equivalent for voice on 2182 etc. at the hour and half past - red splodges)
The listening watch stopped on March 31st 2003 / 2002 ? - I forget.
This channel was kept open for so long because the Russian fishing fleet could not afford voice radio and communicated with morse - now that radios are so cheap the 500khz channel has been scrapped.
or something like that ??

 

[Koeketiene]

[ QUOTE ]
Morse traffic used to be on 500 khz, a listening watch was kept for 3 mins before quarter past the hour and a quarter to.

[/ QUOTE ]

It was H+15-18 & H+45-48 -> Red -> 500 Morse (A1)
and H+0-3 & H+30-33 -> Green -> 2182 Voice (A3E)

 

[stephenh]

Yanita
Thank you for the correction - my brain cells are not as fast or as far reaching as they used to be.........

 

[Koeketiene]

Know how you feel /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

 

[john_morris_uk]

If you put some spaces to delineate the characters one might be able to read it?

 

[john_morris_uk]

Some spaces might help!

I suppose I should come out of the morse closet: and admit to aka G4BXS & VP8CQZ

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