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Mike, you have got to get out more!
I think this is the only time I have used morse since Finningley (ahh Doncaster / Gatehouse / ...happy days) ;) |
Best bent wire somehow doesn’t sound so good out of a computer. Mind you, it didn't sound that good when I sent it come to think of it
Perhaps getting rid of Morse and getting rid of Finningly are conected. Perhaps if we bring back morse we will bring back.... I\'ll get my coat |
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The RAF stopped teaching morse code when it was discovered that the Irish had cracked it! .- .-. |
It was great fun joining up the Navs dots on his chart to make dashes and watching them sweat as they tried to ident beacons before they had to ask the knocker for help.
:E PS Davey Allen - Another 20% of 144(R) is right here. You're not talking about Dinty Moore are you? I think he often had a rather liquid lunch. Then there was Flash Gordon Dearlove and Tam Rae - the holy trinity of comms. And I thought that my memory had gone. |
Mike Jen
The other instructor was probably me. I joined up as a WoP in 62 and passed out of Compton Bassett with 25WPM. Various postings all over the then huge RAF!"! Iremember my first encounter with c/w on air/ground comms, it was a Beverley out of Seletar (34sqn?)...ruddy Air Sig had a bug key and me as green as grass couldnt hack the speed! Wonderful days when comms with a 'kite' on c/w felt like an achievement....shacks/brittanias/hastings/beverleys/valettas/argosy/ etc etc then it all went downhill fast when H/F SSB came along and killed c/w almost stone dead. In the 80's had the odd Nimrod siggy who, feeling brave, would zap out a QTH on c/w but the norm was SSB...in fact come to think of it the last real c/w comms on air/ground for me was probably the Shack. C/W became 'tertiary' means of communications in early 90's. By then it was all Upavon/Architect etc etc and nowadays I suppose its all computer downlinks and GPS reports. Saddo that I am I still have a battery operated key to drive er indoors daft with at times, and often QAP the airwaves searching for some c/w...which appears to be mainly confined to the former soviet block countries. best bent wires may be best but bug keys are better by far :ok: |
circle kay wrote:
The Morse key is still on the Nimrod MR2, but at best only two and most probably only one Op on each crew CW trained. Spec phase Morse stopped for dry Ops in 2000ish. The next problem is finding someone on the ground to talk dada dadada dedade dedede de to. I know one Op tried CW in the last two weeks to find no one at the PPFI centre of excellence near Betty’s tea room CW qualified! http://www.wunclub.com/cgi-bin/wunar...i?sstring=bt9p |
Three dots, Four dots, Two dots Dah.
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Morse was taken off the syllabus at Cranwell late 1998. I know this as at the time I was staring at the 'pretend' key they give you to take home and practise dit-dahing on, when it was suddenly whisked away with the announcement that Morse was obsolete.. They filled in the gaps in my already planned program of abuse with extra typing...Hours and hours of it! And I still type with two fingers!!!
Hi to all :ok: |
airborne_artist
I catch the drift whilst rifling through of your clues.....;) |
Morse, eh!!
I used to like his old red Jaguar, and his geordie sidekick Lewis. |
Weeny
You must have been around 189/190 course, as I was one of the last ones to do it in '98. Otherwise would propably have ended up being the a wetman remf. 6 hrs of watching bar codes scroll down the screen. :yuk: |
Pretty close to the mark dude!
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Dark distant images of whole body shaking trying to keep up the tx speed, nights off in the HF(Love) Shack:bored: . Dimmer me old chum is the truth not that, you were first taught morse on a smoky fire with a blanket by Claudius.
Marker Boy scared of the dark art are we :8 ? Charlie sends |
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Hello chaps
You were obviously lucky not to have been at Topcliffe in the very early 70's with Mr Morris and Joe French Audio touch typing with machines that resembled manual cash registers ( at 30 wpm!) Audio hand copy for the exam at 25wpm to achieve the standard SAR comms standard of 18wpm The "Shanwick" radio shack C/S was PR7W Morse is definitely like riding a bike - you never forget it Doh! - .. -- . / ..-. --- .-. / .- -. --- - .... . .-. / --. .. -. / .- -. -.. / - --- -. .. -.-. |
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