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Subject: Re: What hath God wrought?

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Greg B.

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Date Posted: 15:27:10 06/19/13 Wed
In reply to: Wes 's message, "What hath God wrought?" on 14:15:11 06/19/13 Wed

I remember learning morse code as a kid and trying to become sufficiently proficient to get an amateur radio license. Unfortunately, as a ham, I was pretty ham-fisted and it came to naught.

Still, it was a good exercise and I can still remember about half the alphabet all these years later. And, when you think about it, Morse Code and the telegraph had a pretty good run. When they were invented, steam locomotives and steamships were new to the scene and I doubt either has been in use, except as tourist attractions, for quite a while.

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ralph058
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Date Posted: 19:46:11 06/19/13 Wed

>I remember learning morse code as a kid and trying to
>become sufficiently proficient to get an amateur radio
>license. Unfortunately, as a ham, I was pretty
>ham-fisted and it came to naught.

Unfortunately, I learned Morse Code in 8th grade well enough to get my ham license. As a result, when I enlisted in the Army Security Agency, I was proficient enough to ace the morse aptitude test. Because of that, 53 years ago, I became a Morse Interceptor. The MOS was then 058. It is now 98H. I don't think morse is gone entirely.

Interestingly enough, one only had to learn the Q and Z symbols and various prosigns and they could copy any laguage except Japanese and Ethiopic both of which send pairs of letters as a single character. When copying Arabic, I had to learn a few Arabic words. The only one I can remember is listen= ._ ... -- .-.- which is pronounce asma'a

I can also remember a few Middle Eastern cities.