[Elecraft] A Morse PDA/communicator and other uses for Morse code [was: Tonight Show]

[Jessie Oberreuter]

      A few years back, I was driving my co-workers nuts with an Outlook 
hack I wrote that would play the sender and subject of each incoming 
message out my speaker in cw :).  Years earlier, I'd written a plugin for 
TinyFugue that would send what each person said in the "chat room" out in 
cw, with different pitch, speed, weight, and swing assigned to each of the 
"regulars" :).
      Every so often, I get this crazy notion to put a morse code BBS on 
the air :).  It would scan a range of freqs looking for someone calling 
it, come back to them, offer the usual public/private mail options, and 
otherwise interact entirely in cw.  No reason why it couldn't handle more 
than one user at once.  'course given all of my other hobbies, I'll 
probably never get to it ... which is probably a good thing :).

On Fri, 13 May 2005, Buddy Brannan wrote:

> Hey Wayne. Maggie. All you people who are smarter than I am (that covers a whole bunch of people!)
>
> I'd *love* a morse input/output PDA! That'd like really rock my world!
> And Maggie. Bluetooth. Yeah! Have it able to sync up with my cellphone
> to transfer contacts and send SMS through or something...sure be
> faster to send morse than to type on the phone keypad. I don't do T9
> predictive text, it's too wrong too often and IMO more trouble to
> correct than to just type stuff in a letter at a time without it, but
> of course, still slower than morse input. LOL...I'll be a real
> case...morse PDA, talking cellphone (see www.mobilespeak.com) ... I
> love gadgets :)
>
> Oh, and of course my KX1 :) Can't forget the KX1!
>
> BTW, good point Wayne re: morse being good for motor impairments. I
> know tht there've been alternative input devices of that sort for some
> time, but it seems they, too, are (unfortunately) falling out of
> favor. A shame, too.
> -- 
> Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV : Co-Mod. of http://www.assist.com/Pennsylvania
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