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[RAMd®d]

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.

[eustacetilley]

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/...morse.html

Eustace