Morse Code.

03-04-09, 03:57 AM

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Originally Posted by Puster Bill

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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

I quit the Boy Scouts when they wanted me to earn a Morse Code merit badge. Then I joined the Navy. They made me a radioman. Learned to type in one week and learned Morse the next. Then we used a teletype, and I only ever used the key once. Then I promptly made a point of forgetting it. That was forty years ago.

I use English, thanks.

Bite your tongue.

Morse is *THE* most perfect form of communication. It is media independent: You can send it via audio, by keying an RF carrier on and off, or a light, or you can even wiggle your arse in Morse. You can't do that with teletype, or even voice.

It's also a damned fine way to communicate if you are ever paralyzed. If you have *ANY* voluntary muscle control at all, you can use it to send Morse, even if it's by blinking an eye, wiggling a toe, or even modulating your breath.

Not only that, but it's a universal language also. I can and have had conversations with people who didn't speak English because Morse Q signals and prosigns are the same in every language.

In short, Morse rocks

And I'm not just saying that because I'm brain damaged from my time as a ditty bopper.

Agreed morse code rocks, but still why navy used the flagmans for signals when they could transmit anything by morse ?