[CW] Zen and the Art of Radiotelegraphy, English Edition !

[Art]

Doesn't take a lot of bandwidth to send "THE WORLD WONDERS"

I have always enjoyed that story of Admiral Halsey in WW2 and the use of 
fill to pad a CW message.

Art K5FNQ


Radio K0HB wrote:
>>   The underlying problem is if or when SOL belches right at our sweet 
>> Earth, all of those
>> satellites  could be toast within seconds, an then how will the ships 
>> communicate?  There will be no
>> trained HF operators.  I has happened mildly in the past.
>>     
>
> Why will there be no trained HF operators?   All Navy ships are still HF 
> capable and competent.  HF obviously is bandwidth constricted, but ships are 
> fully HF equipped and communicators routinely exercise those capabilities.
>
> It is beyond the scope (and security level) of this reflector to educate you 
> on the layers of backup in Navy communications systems, but suffice to say 
> that EMP-toasted satellites would be a moderate inconvenience for some long 
> distance (inter-theatre) communications needs, but modern battle group 
> (intra-theatre) communications assets are fully self sufficient and can be 
> completely independent of both satellite and HF.
>
> If, on the other hand, you hold "HF" to be synonymous with "Morse code", 
> Morse (even with highly trained operators) would be of no practical use in 
> modern Navy communications.  Battle group communications require multiple 
> multi-megabit communications channels, even for routine operations, so CW is 
> far too slow to contribute in any meaningful way whatsoever.
>
> 73, de Hans, K0HB
> Master Chief Radioman, US Navy
>
>  
>
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