Len Anderson wrote:
In article .com,
"bb"
writes:

Mike Coslo wrote:

That is why when we try to make Morse code computer compatible,

We?

Coslonaut is a ham for all hams, all seasons. He is high tech.

He may be high tech, but code didn't make him that way.

W0EX did not, RIP. He specifically stated that he would send Morse
Code so that computer readers (manned by unworthy no-code
Technicians)
could not copy his messages.

Besides, if something is digital, why would you have to try so hard
to
make it computer compatible?

It's the only way the coslonaut can become "high-tech?"

Then he's heading down a dead end street. Hopefully he finds something
else, like amateur near space exploration.

After all, he is reaching for the threshold of space via surplus
helium
balloons carrying amateur radio. [pioneering work, important
"science"]

Bingo! This is the very same tack that all of the research
universities use to get grant money. They propose to re-study
something that has been studied previously. They get the grant money,
hire a handful of chinese and indian post-grads. They redo the study,
find exactly the same results, then always state that more research is
necessary.

And the government falls for it.

Try the null hypothesis. Are you saying the silent periods are
valueless?

Coslonaut has gone way too far into reducto ad absurdum regions.
By introducing variables unrelated to the basic principle of
operation, he can expand his definition into a number of
dimensions
greater than the number of particles in the entire universe! :-)

Yep. What if the Navy and Coast Guard had dismissed all of those
"silent periods" while on radio watch?

But, the use of "intercarrier lack of pulse time" is false. The
"inter"
means 'within.' In on-off keying "CW" there is NO carrier to be
"within." The off time is short, long, or of infinite variation
in
duration. It's a use of "high-tech bafflegab" for a low-tech
subject.

But, but, but....

Len, they're master of it. In one breath, Miccolis says that Morse
Code is ones and zeroes, marks and spaces, then in the next breath,
he's back to the correct definition. A master of deception.

Morse code is a very primitive form of technology 161 years ago
when it first began (as representation of numbers, just numbers).
A few years after the first Morse-Vail Telegraphy debut in 1844,
the representation of English alphabet and some punctuation was
added to the "code." [there is still a dispute of whether or not
co-inventor Alfred Vail actually came up with the addition of the
alphabet, but that is another subject...such is neither proved nor
disproved] Morse code is still a very primitive form of
representation
of the western language alphabet, numbers and punctuation,
regardless of the technology level of the equipment used to
communicate in that mode.

Some of these guys were there. They might know Vails actual role...

Coslonaut might just think that off times have great value...as in
the old hoary expression "silence is golden." If so, he should
gilt
himself and be silent, quit trying to make a primitive method into
high technology.

Now, now, now, Len. The off times must be important. It's the only
way the ARRL can explain away how they can send a supposedly "Morse
Code Exam" at 13-15 WPM and still claim it meets the FCC's 5WPM rate.

And if these guys silenced themselves, then where will we ever get gems
like, "...A morse code exam would be a deterrent to morse code use.
N2EY"

Hi, hi!