During long boring meetings at an Aerospace company, my buddy and I would
send Morse by pencil taps, sharp tap was a dit and a tap-scrape was a dah.
Worked well until a new manager gave his fist talk assuring us nothing would
change - we tapped out BS.

After the meeting, the new manager asked my buddy and I to stay for a moment
after the meeting,

With a smile, he sed Hi guys -- I'm W#XYZ

Real call sign disguised to protect the guilty (;-)

--
CL -- I doubt, therefore I might be !






"kd5sak" wrote in message
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"Cecil Moore" wrote in message
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clfe wrote:
How do you send a 'dash' by tapping on a pipe? You
apparently could revolutionize prison communications
by providing an answer to that simple question.
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73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp

How about a fast double tap on the pipe (or bar) to signify a "dash"? It's
not an elegant solution, but could be made to work. Those guys are
probably not gonna try for 30 characters per minute anyway.

Harold
KD5SAK

A friend of mine and a high school classmate got caught doing the same
thing. Some very creative descriptions of the teachers'
extracurricular activities, until one of the teachers turned out to be
a ham...

Showed them the piece of paper he was copying on :-)

73
Dan
N3OX

Caveat Lector wrote:
During long boring meetings at an Aerospace company, my buddy and I would
send Morse by pencil taps, sharp tap was a dit and a tap-scrape was a dah.
Worked well until a new manager gave his fist talk assuring us nothing would
change - we tapped out BS.

After the meeting, the new manager asked my buddy and I to stay for a moment
after the meeting,

With a smile, he sed Hi guys -- I'm W#XYZ

Real call sign disguised to protect the guilty (;-)

--
CL -- I doubt, therefore I might be !






"kd5sak" wrote in message
et...

"Cecil Moore" wrote in message
. com...
clfe wrote:
How do you send a 'dash' by tapping on a pipe? You
apparently could revolutionize prison communications
by providing an answer to that simple question.
--
73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp

How about a fast double tap on the pipe (or bar) to signify a "dash"? It's
not an elegant solution, but could be made to work. Those guys are
probably not gonna try for 30 characters per minute anyway.

Harold
KD5SAK

wrote:
A friend of mine and a high school classmate got caught doing the same
thing. Some very creative descriptions of the teachers'
extracurricular activities, until one of the teachers turned out to be
a ham...

Passing notes in school is how I first learned the code. Took about two
weeks to memorize all the letters so I didn't need a cheat sheet.
I never got caught though. :/
MK