an_old_friend wrote:
I never get an answer to just what good Morse code would be in this
doomday world.

1) It keeps some of us busy, doing our favorite thing

2) It makes it possible for some people to communicate with others, even
when they don't have the motor skills to do so in the first place

3) It allows you to reach longer than any other form of HF communication

4) It will come in handy it *that* ever happens

and so on



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73 de LB3KB, Sigurd
http://justlearnmorsecode.com

Sigurd Stenersen wrote:
an_old_friend wrote:
I never get an answer to just what good Morse code would be in this
doomday world.

1) It keeps some of us busy, doing our favorite thing

fiddling while rome burn nero

2) It makes it possible for some people to communicate with others, even
when they don't have the motor skills to do so in the first place

3) It allows you to reach longer than any other form of HF communication

plain flase or at best incomplete

Morse encoded CW does not allowed a greater range than say Heilshrieber
would

4) It will come in handy it *that* ever happens

how?

still waiting for an answer to the question, asked many times and many
ways I'll try another

how will Morse be able to deliver anything of objective value if the
world is so far gone that morse encoded cw was ALL there was

and so on



--
73 de LB3KB, Sigurd
http://justlearnmorsecode.com

an old friend wrote:
still waiting for an answer to the question, asked many times and many
ways I'll try another

how will Morse be able to deliver anything of objective value if the
world is so far gone that morse encoded cw was ALL there was

Who gives a hoot ?

Get a life...


73 de LB3KB, Sigurd
http://justlearnmorsecode.com

Sigurd Stenersen wrote:
an old friend wrote:
still waiting for an answer to the question, asked many times and many
ways I'll try another

how will Morse be able to deliver anything of objective value if the
world is so far gone that morse encoded cw was ALL there was

Who gives a hoot ?

obviously yourself

Get a life...

I have one


73 de LB3KB, Sigurd
http://justlearnmorsecode.com

I don't know dude.. use your imagination. Do I have to write a
post-apocalyptic story for you? Ok, let's say that a big ass asteroid hit
the earth and blew up a lot of ****, wiped out all the telecommunications
stuff and there were only pockets of people left, scattered all over. You
rip a battery out of a car and power up your HF rig, hoist up a simple
antenna and start beaming **** as far out as you can. Maybe the atmosphere
is so ****ed by the crap in the air that voice is totally garbled, or maybe
the only people are 10000 miles away and you can barely reach them with your
****ty antenna. Or maybe they don't even speak your language but can
understand some rudimentary morse stuff. Who knows?

I'm obviously not saying this situation is at all likely, but it and others
are certainly possible. Would I spend my time learning code for this
possibility? No, but I can understand that some people might.



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Sigurd Stenersen wrote:
an_old_friend wrote:
I never get an answer to just what good Morse code would be in this
doomday world.

1) It keeps some of us busy, doing our favorite thing

fiddling while rome burn nero

2) It makes it possible for some people to communicate with others, even
when they don't have the motor skills to do so in the first place

3) It allows you to reach longer than any other form of HF communication

plain flase or at best incomplete

Morse encoded CW does not allowed a greater range than say Heilshrieber
would

4) It will come in handy it *that* ever happens

how?

still waiting for an answer to the question, asked many times and many
ways I'll try another

how will Morse be able to deliver anything of objective value if the
world is so far gone that morse encoded cw was ALL there was

and so on



--
73 de LB3KB, Sigurd
http://justlearnmorsecode.com

On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 22:37:45 GMT, "Falky foo"
wrote:

I don't know dude.. use your imagination. Do I have to write a
post-apocalyptic story for you? Ok, let's say that a big ass asteroid hit
the earth and blew up a lot of ****, wiped out all the telecommunications
stuff and there were only pockets of people left, scattered all over. You
rip a battery out of a car and power up your HF rig, hoist up a simple
antenna and start beaming **** as far out as you can. Maybe the atmosphere
is so ****ed by the crap in the air that voice is totally garbled, or maybe
the only people are 10000 miles away and you can barely reach them with your
****ty antenna. Or maybe they don't even speak your language but can
understand some rudimentary morse stuff. Who knows?

I'm obviously not saying this situation is at all likely, but it and others
are certainly possible. Would I spend my time learning code for this
possibility? No, but I can understand that some people might.


Wow, "On the Beach", huh. :-)

On Tue, 18 Oct 2005 00:17:50 GMT, wrote:

On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 22:37:45 GMT, "Falky foo"
wrote:

I don't know dude.. use your imagination. Do I have to write a
post-apocalyptic story for you? Ok, let's say that a big ass asteroid hit
the earth and blew up a lot of ****, wiped out all the telecommunications
stuff and there were only pockets of people left, scattered all over. You
rip a battery out of a car and power up your HF rig, hoist up a simple
antenna and start beaming **** as far out as you can. Maybe the atmosphere
is so ****ed by the crap in the air that voice is totally garbled, or maybe
the only people are 10000 miles away and you can barely reach them with your
****ty antenna. Or maybe they don't even speak your language but can
understand some rudimentary morse stuff. Who knows?

I'm obviously not saying this situation is at all likely, but it and others
are certainly possible. Would I spend my time learning code for this
possibility? No, but I can understand that some people might.


Wow, "On the Beach", huh. :-)

and what goodCW do in that movie/ senario it draged to sub across the
ocean to find a CW key hooked on a flaping blind

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On Tue, 18 Oct 2005 00:17:50 GMT, wrote:

On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 22:37:45 GMT, "Falky foo"
wrote:

I don't know dude.. use your imagination. Do I have to write a
post-apocalyptic story for you? Ok, let's say that a big ass asteroid
hit
the earth and blew up a lot of ****, wiped out all the telecommunications
stuff and there were only pockets of people left, scattered all over.
You
rip a battery out of a car and power up your HF rig, hoist up a simple
antenna and start beaming **** as far out as you can. Maybe the
atmosphere
is so ****ed by the crap in the air that voice is totally garbled, or
maybe
the only people are 10000 miles away and you can barely reach them with
your
****ty antenna. Or maybe they don't even speak your language but can
understand some rudimentary morse stuff. Who knows?

I'm obviously not saying this situation is at all likely, but it and
others
are certainly possible. Would I spend my time learning code for this
possibility? No, but I can understand that some people might.


Wow, "On the Beach", huh. :-)

and what goodCW do in that movie/ senario it draged to sub across the
ocean to find a CW key hooked on a flaping blind


The key was not "hooked" on a flapping blind. The blind was blowing in the
wind and a empty bottle of Coca Cola was hitting the key, it then made
contact and was sending the following message; BUY MORE OVALTINE.

Dan/W4NTI

Falky foo wrote:
I don't know dude.. use your imagination. Do I have to write a
post-apocalyptic story for you? Ok, let's say that a big ass asteroid hit
the earth and blew up a lot of ****, wiped out all the telecommunications
stuff and there were only pockets of people left, scattered all over. You
rip a battery out of a car and power up your HF rig, hoist up a simple
antenna and start beaming **** as far out as you can. Maybe the atmosphere
is so ****ed by the crap in the air that voice is totally garbled, or maybe
the only people are 10000 miles away and you can barely reach them with your
****ty antenna. Or maybe they don't even speak your language but can
understand some rudimentary morse stuff. Who knows?

and just what is this "commincation going to achieve?

I'm obviously not saying this situation is at all likely, but it and others
are certainly possible. Would I spend my time learning code for this
possibility? No, but I can understand that some people might.

your imagination exceeds mine obviously

your imagination exceeds mine obviously

obviously..

you must be an accountant.