In order to participate in the GunBroker Member forums, you must be logged in with your GunBroker.com account. Click the sign-in button at the top right of the forums page to get connected.
Morse Code ???
gesshots
Member Posts: 15,678 ✭✭✭✭
Anyone know Morse code ? ... 😋
It's being willing. I found out early that most men, regardless of cause or need, aren't willing. They blink an eye or draw a breath before they pull the trigger. I won't. ~ J.B. Books
Comments
Used to. Long gone now. It was required for some aviation uses.
My wife's GrandDad was a telegrapher for the White Star Cruise line and she has his personal key as a prized memorabilia. They had their own keys and protected them. It was said that you could recognize an individual by his coding. Sadly, none of our grandkids show any interest in wanting it, so she may donate it to a museum.
Use to know both morse code and semaphore flags very well from my days in boy scouts so many years ago.
Not positive, but I bet his message has something to do with the fact that dinner is late. Bob
50 years ago during my Boy Scout days I had it down.......Not so much now !
democratic fleas signaling free room and board............
I can spell my name! Does that count? Dit dit dit da/dit/dit da dit/da dit/da da da/da dit .
For years I've marked my 3 initials in Morse code on all of my tools and personal belongings, better and safer than s/s numbers. Thiefs don't realize what it is and it works in a court of law 😊
"Never do wrong to make a friend----or to keep one".....Robert E. Lee
My late Uncle Fritz was a Navy Radio man who served during the Korean War. When I was in elementary school doing a science fair project, he helped me to make a working telegraph using a dry cell battery and homemade electro magnets. From him I also learned Morse code but about all I remember today is SOS. Morse is definitely a skill that fits the "Use it or Lose it" definition quite easily.
▄ ▄ ▄ ▄▄▄ ▄▄▄ ▄▄▄ ▄ ▄ ▄
P.S. I got an A+ on my science project 😊
There are morse code generators and decoders on the internet so you can use it without knowing it.
I have used it to communicate with my teenage nephews. They decode it the old fashioned way and I have not told them I use the internet to type it.
Also use in email sometimes at work for fun.
Here is an internet tool to type your words and get morse code back. You can also copy and past the morse code in and get english words back.
https://morsecode.world/international/translator.html
-.-- --- ..- / -.-. .- -. / ..- ... . / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . / ..-. --- .-. / ..-. ..- -.
It is alive and well in the ham radio world. Those guys go too fast for me to write it down to translate it.
Old Boy Scout Flash Light has a Brass Plate with the Code i it.
Other than SOS I'm lost
Brookwood, I always tell my wife that part about the "if you don't use it you lose it" as a reason for us to get "busy". It occasionally works. 😁