[NJARC] I Phone APPS

[John Ruccolo]

Hi Ray,

I think you spelled "fart" incorrectly. ;-)

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JR

--- On Sun, 1/10/10, Ray Chase <raydio862 at verizon.net> wrote:

> From: Ray Chase <raydio862 at verizon.net>
> Subject: [NJARC] I Phone APPS
> To: "NJARC" <njarc at mailman.qth.net>
> Date: Sunday, January 10, 2010, 9:53 AM
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> 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 co
>  de 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
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