[GreenKeys] Morse tapes

Nick England navy.radio at gmail.com
Sun Jul 25 09:04:51 EDT 2021


That’s a Wheatstone tape with the Morse code holes. Photos and info at
https://www.navy-radio.com/morse.htm

I agree that image shows two tapes, one Wheatstone and below it a
hand-typed translation.

Nick

On Sun, Jul 25, 2021 at 12:27 AM Paul Heller <phearvada at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yes page 47! Good find.
>
> What about that pattern above the characters? I can see that if the upper
> and lower dots in the latter align vertically it is a dit and if the lower
> dot is offset one space to the right from the upper dot it is a dah. I’ve
> not seen that convention before. Was this a kind of thin paper tape that
> was read into some kind of Morse transmitter? If so, how was the tape made
> and what was the transmitter? Maybe the book tells me, but I w pent right
> to page 47.
>
> Paul
>
> > On Jul 24, 2021, at 8:32 PM, Richard Knoppow <1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >    Note: P 47 of the PDF not the document.
> >
> >> On 7/24/2021 4:05 PM, w9ddd at tapr.org wrote:
> >> I found this interesting,YMMV
> >> Page 47 of
> >>
> http://www.afcommatc.org/uploads/3/4/3/0/34302180/afcc_chrono_1938-1988_windowtofuture.pdf
> >>
> >>
> >> John, W9DDD
> >>
> >
>
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Nick England K4NYW
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