Reg Edwards wrote:
I do happen to know the morse code. At one time I could do 30 wpm.

But the chance that I shall see, in my lifetime, someone drowning in a
river when I have with me a battery-operated transmitter, a receiver,
an antenna, ground spike, and a morse key is about one in
10,000,000,000.

I would be far more likely to plug in the microphone.

In any case, by the time I had got the gear fixed up and made a
suitable contact, the poor victim could have floated out into the
Atlantic Ocean.

It would be a good idea to dump the equipment and run downstream along
the river bank to the nearest safety belt.

nah you use the ground spike to achor your antenna to use as a safety
line the tranmiter might make a decent grip might not and then go in
and save the guy
at least the troll is on topic is all
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Reg.