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

[D.J.J. Ring, Jr.]

Chris,

Another way of looking at it is to practice to near perfection but then
lapse into beauty.

Machine sent Morse is perfect, but it's soulless.  A Morse operator who
tries to send perfectly but strays slightly is much more beautiful. That's
why I like mechanical keys rather than electronic keyers.

Warts and all, errors and all, this sounds pretty good, I have some videos
of straight key and sideswiper as well but I was in so much physical pain
when the videos were taken, they're difficult for me to watch!
Semiautomatic key (Turn on captions):
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=r8JXr3I2ycQ&t=0

73
DR

N1EA

On Sat, Nov 27, 2021, 18:30 Chris R. NW6V <chrisrut7 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>>>
>>> ______________________________________________________________
>>> CW mailing list
>>> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/cw
>>> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm
>>> Post: mailto:CW at mailman.qth.net
>>> CW List ARCHIVES: http://mailman.qth.net/pipermail/cw/
>>> Unsubcribe send email to
>>> cw-unsubscribe at mailman.qth.net
>>> Subscribe send email to cw-subscribe at mailman.qth.net
>>> Support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
>>>
>>> =30=
>>>
>> ______________________________________________________________
>> CW mailing list
>> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/cw
>> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm
>> Post: mailto:CW at mailman.qth.net
>> CW List ARCHIVES: http://mailman.qth.net/pipermail/cw/
>> Unsubcribe send email to
>> cw-unsubscribe at mailman.qth.net
>> Subscribe send email to cw-subscribe at mailman.qth.net
>> Support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
>>
>> =30=
>
> ______________________________________________________________
> CW mailing list
> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/cw
> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm
> Post: mailto:CW at mailman.qth.net
> CW List ARCHIVES: http://mailman.qth.net/pipermail/cw/
> Unsubcribe send email to
> cw-unsubscribe at mailman.qth.net
> Subscribe send email to cw-subscribe at mailman.qth.net
> Support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
>
> =30=
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mailman.qth.net/pipermail/cw/attachments/20211127/faa156c1/attachment.html>