[SFDXA] Morse Code Stitched Up...

[Kai Siwiak]

Thanks Bill!
Nice.  You can see the word "firetruck" minus the "iretr" in the outer 
upper part of the border, along with "Hitler".  And of course "God save 
the King" repeats in the inner border. Nice "Easter Eggs" for the Nazis.

I'm proud to say that my daughter, KE4QXL, buried some Morse code 
"Easter Eggs" in the sound suite for the Chevy Volt.  She was part of a 
design team that worked on the "sound suite" for the Chevy Volt.  She 
"stitched in" the logo "GM" in Morse code subtly within some of the car 
cue-sounds.  The hams at GM absolutely loved it, but we don't know if 
the sounds made it to the final product. If you know of anyone who owns 
a "Volt" and knows Morse, we'd like to know.

73
Kai, KE4PT


Bill Marx wrote:
> This was posted on the CWops list:
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> Morse Code Stitched Up...
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> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/world-war-2/9009651/The-British-POW-who-stitched-an-insult-to-Hitler.html 
> <http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/world-war-2/9009651/The-British-POW-who-stitched-an-insult-to-Hitler.html>
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> The British POW who stitched an insult to Hitler
> A POW wiling away the war in a German prison camp delivered a defiant 
> message insulting Hitler through the apparently innocuous skill of 
> embroidery.
>
> Maj Alexis Casdagil sewed a Morse code message around his sampler, 
> reading 'God saves the king'. Photo: David Fearn/newsteam
> By Matthew Day
> 11:30AM GMT 12 Jan 2012
> 4 Comments
> Major Alexis Casdagli, who was taken prisoner in 1941, had turned to 
> embroidery as a way of protecting his sanity against the tedium of POW 
> life but he also found it provided a means of covert resistance.
>
> An innocent looking tapestry stitched by the officer in December 1941 
> bears the rather bland text stating the name and location of its creator 
> and the date. But in a border surrounding the text Major Casdagli also 
> stitched a series of dots and dashes, which in Morse code spelt out "God 
> Save the King" and "---- Hitler".
>
> Unaware of the hidden message but impressed with the captive officer's 
> needlework, the Germans even put it on display.
>
> "It used to give him pleasure when the Germans were doing the rounds," 
> Tony Casdagli, the major's 79-year-old son, told the Daily Mail.
>
> "It also stopped him going mad. He would say after the war that the Red 
> Cross saved his life but his embroidery saved his sanity."
>
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> Despite the risk of a keen-eyed German guard deciphering the Morse 
> message the piece of embroidery was hung on walls at all the camps Major 
> Casdagli stayed in till his release in 1945.
>
> Tony Casdagli also revealed that his father had stitched on a flap to a 
> Union Jack, bearing the message "Do not open": a mocking reference to a 
> Nazi law banning the British flag.
>
> The major continued to embroider till his death in 1990 but his tapestry 
> with its coded words of defiance is now on display at the Victoria and 
> Albert Museum.
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