RadioBanter - View Single Post - Element 1, Code vs. No-code, and Dad

October 27th 03, 02:14 PM

(N2EY) wrote in message ...
In article ,
(Bert Craig) writes:

(snip of excellent description of the 5 wpm code test)

Here's another way for those unfamiliar with Morse to look at it:

Imagine a test where the person being tested has to listen to a series of words
spoken at a slow rate (one word every 2.4 seconds) and write down the the first
letter of the word spoken. The same word is used for each occurrence of a
particular letter. So a person being tested would hear something like
"Table....History...Imagination....Salamander..... ...Imagination...Salaman
der......Nexus...Oval...Table
.......History.....America......Raster.....Dominio n......(etc.)

and when the letters were written down, a simple message would be spelled out.
Person being tested could go back and make corrections, too.

What a wonderful analogy. It almost makes you want to go out and
learn the code.

That's all the Morse test is - except

Ah, a condition.

that instead of words, there are series of short and long tones.

And there it is. If only our alphabet were two letters long, which
could be substituted with short and long tones.