[Elecraft] Way off topic, but fun

[Matt VK2RQ]

Why only two tones? If we use an 8-tones "multi-FSK", we can get more bandwidth. Here is an example of such a code (or in fact language) that is meant to be human-readable:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solresol

This is what inspired the alien musical language in the movie "Close Encounters of the Third Kind", together with the musical hand signals of John Curwen:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Curwen

Well, if we weren't off topic before, we certainly are now :-)

73, Matt VK2RQ

On 18/11/2012, at 5:30 AM, "Ron D'Eau Claire" <ron at cobi.biz> wrote:

> This O.T.'s brain, used to hearing several signals at once in the rx
> passband, tries to decode each frequency simultaneously as a separate
> signal. So one signal is sending only dits and the other is sending only
> dashes!
> 
> I'd not want to train my gray matter to consider two different requencies as
> one signal. 
> 
> It is slightly reminiscent of the "yooping" chirp some of our old one-tube
> transmitters produced though, Hi! 
> 
> 73, Ron AC7AC 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> 
> 
> A new digital mode that can be sent and received without a computer.  You
> just have to learn it.
> 
> http://www.ke3c.com/ToneWave.php
> 
> Ken (KC) Nicely  KE3C
> 
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