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Old December 14th 08, 09:29 AM posted to rec.radio.shortwave
Geoffrey S. Mendelson Geoffrey S. Mendelson is offline
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Default Morse code (when did CW become "Morse Code"?)

Ian Jackson wrote:
On my PC, I have several programs concerned with reception and
transmission of that funny beepy stuff. With one exception, they are all
about something anachronistically called 'Morse Code'. You really would
think that their authors would know better, wouldn't you?


No, the programs can decode Morse code. They probably CAN NOT DECODE other
trinary encoding, whether it's sent using CW (carrier on/off), MCW (tone
modulated carrier on/off), or FSK (frequency shift keying).

You keep confusing the encoding of the data with the transmission medium.

Geoff.

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