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Re: -- --- .-. ... . - RAMd®d - 07-16-2013
I used to love copying code and flashing light.
As a kid, I'd sit and listen to my old Halicrafters SX28A for hours. It was always fun listening to Morse used in TV shows. A lot of times it was nothing coherent, just lots of dots and dashes, like TV's modern day "keyboarding".
While I understand why, it was a sad day for me when Morse code was retired.
For me, that's the day "music" died.
Re: -- --- .-. ... . - eustacetilley - 07-16-2013
RAMd®d wrote:
I used to love copying code and flashing light.
As a kid, I'd sit and listen to my old Halicrafters SX28A for hours. It was always fun listening to Morse used in TV shows. A lot of times it was nothing coherent, just lots of dots and dashes, like TV's modern day "keyboarding".
While I understand why, it was a sad day for me when Morse code was retired.
For me, that's the day "music" died.
Just to be pedantic, I use "Morse Code" in the common sense- what I really mean is "International Morse Code". There was also "American Morse Code". I'm sure that there were "American Morse Code" fans a century or more back who were mighty put out by their forced obsolescence.
For me, it was a Hallicrafters S20R that took me out into the Ether. I already knew the code; I needed the Merit badge a couple of year's before. But Disneyland finally flummuxed me, so I got all Inspector Morse on it.
Tens of millions have heard it; thousands hear it every day. Practically nobody pays attention. It's the Disney Railroad telegraph. And it uses American Morse:
http://www.hiddenmickeys.org/disneyland/secrets/square/morse.html
Eustace