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Morse Code Is Back

  • Web Diva
    Leader
    January 14, 2023 7:55 PM CST

    Looking to Ditch Twitter? Morse Code Is Back

    https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/morse-code-back-looking-ditch-twitter-180981309/ Morse code emerged during a time of tinkering, at the start of the electrical age. In the 1830s, Samuel F.B. Morse, who had made a national name for himself as a painter with portraits of such luminaries as John Adams and the Marquis de Lafayette, began working with colleagues, including the inventor Alfred Vail, to experiment with how an electrical impulse initiated in one place and transmitted over a distance through wires could activate an electromagnet somewhere else. Operators would push down on a button attached to a small slab of brass that made an electrical connection between two wires. The connection sent electricity through these wires to a remote electromagnet, which then attracted a metal strip that made a clicking sound. Thought this was a cool article, taking you down the path of history when Morse code was used and how there are licensed ham operators that are still practicing the use of Morse code. When I was young, I had a two way radio/walkie-talkie with the Morse code printed on it with a button I could use to send messages to my friend I gave the other radio connected to it. I still remember it. The button was orange and the radio was gray. Morse code was written in white on a black background on the front of the radio.
  • Web Diva
    Leader
    January 14, 2023 7:57 PM CST
    OMG, I just found a pic of my childhood 2-way radio. Midland Walkie-Talkie.
  • Techi Jedi
    March 11, 2023 12:44 PM CST
    Not quite on topic but I had to. If you want to go way back to walkie talkies, you can also go way back in computers. Using binary. I had a friend at another forum who teased a developer with a post on his profile page in binary language something like this:

    01001000 01100101 01101100 01101100 01101111 00100000 01001001 00100000 01100100 01100001 01110010 01100101 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 00100000 01110100 01101111 00100000 01110100 01110010 01100001 01101110 01110011 01101100 01100001 01110100 01100101 00100000 01110100 01101000 01101001 01110011 00100001
  • Web Diva
    Leader
    March 11, 2023 2:00 PM CST
    Techi Jedi said: Not quite on topic but I had to. If you want to go way back to walkie talkies, you can also go way back in computers. Using binary. I had a friend at another forum who teased a developer with a post on his profile page in binary language something like this: 01001000 01100101 01101100 01101100 01101111 00100000 01001001 00100000 01100100 01100001 01110010 01100101 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 00100000 01110100 01101111 00100000 01110100 01110010 01100001 01101110 01110011 01101100 01100001 01110100 01100101 00100000 01110100 01101000 01101001 01110011 00100001 OMG....lol...that would be painful to translate! What a sense of humor your friend has! Too funny!!