[NJARC] I Phone APPS

[Ray Chase]

This is a subject I know nothing about but here goes.  Yesterday at the museum a young guy came in and we were busy but I eventually got to him as he was playing with the telegraph sounder.  He had an APP on his I phone (don't know if I'm calling these things by the correct names or acronyms) that would translate Morse into text.  After giving him some help we decided that the telegraph sounder would not work because it provides two short clicks rather than a tone sound.  Went over to the WWII telegraph trainer machine and that seemed to work but apparently the spacing between words is too short and the phone was displaying long trails of dots and dashes.  The APP has settings to adjust for high or slow speed.  Then we went to the short wave receivers and I finally found some code using the BC 348 on 80 meters.  Could not clearly decipher too much here, the operator was really fast and there was some noise level as well.  Then this guy used our computer to go to sites that code and decode text; created some text to code at 15 wpm and then had it played back through the computer speakers and the APP clearly decoded it and displayed it on the screen.  The APP can work backwards in that you can key in text and it will create code.  All fascinating stuff to this old fahrt and one who never really got a grasp on this Morse thing.
Ray