[Elecraft] [OT] Morse is back!!

[Fred Jensen]

I believe this became the required keying device in the Poisson du Avril 
contest some years ago. [:-)

I had a Morse SMS message composer on my Android phone several years 
ago.  Send Morse to it with two fingers and it created a text message.  
It's not there any more, it was a solution lacking only a problem.

If, however, you are an ARRL member, in the Oct 1949 issue of QST, you 
will find an article introducing the secret to perfect Morse ... 
keyboards, other than typewriters and teletypes, and electronic keyers 
were yet to be invented.  It used a four-finger switch arrangement, and 
the author, one A. F. Scotten, W6ZMZ, even offered a sentence to prove 
its superiority: "Then after Richard had arrived he and Clarence each 
kissed beautiful annabelle and she ceased all resistance because in 
actual fact she liked it better than ever

Ignoring the fact that is is a fairly racy sentence for QST in 1949, he 
asserts it has no consecutive dashes and is thus very hard to send on 
the keys/bugs of the day.  The secret to perfect Morse?  Send the spaces 
instead of the dits and dahs.  For some reason, the idea never caught on.

73,

Fred ("Skip") K6DGW
Sparks NV USA
Washoe County DM09dn

On 4/1/2017 10:17 AM, Doug Turnbull wrote:
> Dear OMs and YLs,
>      We CW ops will be happy with this piece; Morse is back:
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KhZKNZO8mQ
>
>
>
> 73 Doug EI2CN
>
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