[CW] STENDEC - The World’s Most Mysterious Morse Code

[Chris R. NW6V]

I would still prefer that the final judge be a human - even if it means
being told something I don't want to hear :-) I've been there, eh? But
learn I do.

The ONLY reason Morse code, and we operators, were used beyond Morse's very
first experiments in the early 1840s was because our brains were capable of
decoding data at the "edges" of the network, where things were not reliable
enough for direct data - i.e. machine to machine - connections. Morse
survived because our brains made his system smart, while the others were
not.

Our superior ability to provide error correction on the fly kept us
relevant up until the mid-nineteen nineties when the network reliability -
out to the edge - finally made us obsolete. The electronic network was now
turtles all the way down.

However, a computer will never be able to appreciate that code can be
beautiful. I remember "Roy's" soliloquy at the end of Blade Runner -
commenting on the passing of life, and the loss of the wonders he had
seen...

Anyway, computers make great training tools - and can provide feedback -
but I believe the goal of all training should be to "Train the keyer in
your brain" to know and good code as experience. We all know good code when
we hear it - it "comes alive" in your brain. "Machine perfect" is not
necessarily perfect - it does nothing to inspire wonder...

73 Chris NW6V
MorseBusters

On Sat, Nov 27, 2021 at 3:04 AM D.J.J. Ring, Jr. <n1ea at arrl.net> wrote:

> Jude,
>
> Most of the radio officers in UK and elsewhere went to maritime college
> for radio officers. The auditor was their Morse instructor during the two
> years of training, then they had to pass the post office examination (we
> had FCC) and since these were commercial licenses they were quite strict
> about their evaluations.
>
> These days, there are software programs like FISTCHECK. That can do the
> work.
>
> I had a DGM SRT-2000 keyboard which could send and receive and when I was
> sending on my semiautomatic Vibroplex key, I would monitor it to improve my
> sending, at first even with practiced use, occasionally "C" would be
> decoded as "NN" I worked until the DGM SRT-2000 keyboard could copy me
> perfectly!
>
> 73
> DR
> N1EA
>
> On Sat, Nov 27, 2021, 00:07 Jude DaShiell <jdashiel at panix.com> wrote:
>
>> Back in the day of the radio officers an electronic cw auditor
>> maybe would have been a useful training tool for the
>> time students started using a key.  The auditor could listen to keying and
>> output voice comments on problem keying as well as good keying practices
>> when heard.
>>
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