And if you want to hear what morse telegraphy sounds like in 2022, you're in luck because it's still alive and well. Simply tune your shortwave radio to 7.028-7.045 or 14.028-14.045 MHz every Wednesday between 1300-1400z & 1900-2000z, and every Thursday at 0300-0400z & 0700–0800z. Or, try 7.050-7.060 MHz any evening to listen for operators using straight keys.
If you do not have a shortwave radio there are plenty online at http://websdr.org/.
I'm always curious about how long this will continue (e.g. see the recent post on how Gen Z never learned cursive).
I got my ham radio license (since lapsed a long time ago) when I was a kid, back when you still had to pass a Morse code test. I was totally infatuated by it, and remember the excitement of being able to communicate with folks all around the world. I just lost interest with it when the Internet became widespread.
Also, unrelated point, but another reason that what this guy is doing is so impressive is that he is using a straight key. When I was a ham radio operator, pretty much all the ham's I knew used paddle keys, where you press the paddle to the right to get the "dots", and to the left to get the "dashes", but the interrupts are automatically done for you (i.e. holding it to the right gives you "dot dot dot ..." and holding it to the left gives you "dash dash dash ...", and the speed is set with a dial setting on the key), no need to tap. I can't imagine being this fast with a paddle key, let alone a straight key.
I really have no sense of the speed or accuracy of what he's doing. If we assume he started that page right when the video started it works out to 168 characters per minute. That sounds like a lot; is that good?
The video begins with the last two dits of the H in the group JHLRM ([.--- ..].. .-.. .-. --), near the top right of the second page. At the end, [1:44, 1:46) is the last group on the page, JTULF ([.-]-- - ..- .-.. ..-.). There is a suffix of what seems to be .-.-. -.., which would be "end of message" followed for some reason by a 'D'.
So around 230 characters in 106 seconds, or 130 characters per minute, or 26 WPM. Slightly slower, considering that this is without spaces.
Absolutely. Circa 1900, the delay from a major event occurring in New Zealand, and newspapers carrying the story in London, could be as little as a few hours. And the 24 hour news cycle was born. The revolution wasn't just for the newspapers, either. Telegraphy meant you could sell your ship's cargo at the destination port before you even arrived! No more prices always two weeks out of date. And so the modern supply chain was born, too. (As I understand it, that economic force, more than anything else, is what really financed the first transatlantic cables.)
I don't think this really follows. A crucial thing about the Third Network (made with the Internet Protocol, but in a parallel universe it could have been X.25) was that it's packet switched. The telegraph network is connection oriented in practice, like the Second Network (the PSTN).
[+] [-] vvoid|3 years ago|reply
If you do not have a shortwave radio there are plenty online at http://websdr.org/.
[+] [-] hn_throwaway_99|3 years ago|reply
I got my ham radio license (since lapsed a long time ago) when I was a kid, back when you still had to pass a Morse code test. I was totally infatuated by it, and remember the excitement of being able to communicate with folks all around the world. I just lost interest with it when the Internet became widespread.
Also, unrelated point, but another reason that what this guy is doing is so impressive is that he is using a straight key. When I was a ham radio operator, pretty much all the ham's I knew used paddle keys, where you press the paddle to the right to get the "dots", and to the left to get the "dashes", but the interrupts are automatically done for you (i.e. holding it to the right gives you "dot dot dot ..." and holding it to the left gives you "dash dash dash ...", and the speed is set with a dial setting on the key), no need to tap. I can't imagine being this fast with a paddle key, let alone a straight key.
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[+] [-] mgdlbp|3 years ago|reply
The video begins with the last two dits of the H in the group JHLRM ([.--- ..].. .-.. .-. --), near the top right of the second page. At the end, [1:44, 1:46) is the last group on the page, JTULF ([.-]-- - ..- .-.. ..-.). There is a suffix of what seems to be .-.-. -.., which would be "end of message" followed for some reason by a 'D'.
So around 230 characters in 106 seconds, or 130 characters per minute, or 26 WPM. Slightly slower, considering that this is without spaces.
Still no sense of speed or accuracy.
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lets you follow along at 0.25 speed with the rising and falling edges heard in the video by reading,...do dado dado. dado daa-do dado dado. dado daa-do dado. daa-do daa-do. dado daa-do dado. daa-do daa-do dado. dado daa-do dado dado. dado daa-do daa-do daa-do. dado dado daa-do. dado daa-do...
P.S. Radiosport is the original esport.
[+] [-] asix66|3 years ago|reply
[1] https://longislandcwclub.org/
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[+] [-] elihu|3 years ago|reply
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKpsuGMeqHI
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[+] [-] userbinator|3 years ago|reply
It certainly gives another meaning to the phrase "bit-banging a serial port"!
[+] [-] waynesonfire|3 years ago|reply