[SFDXA] Adapting Morse Code to a New Generation of Technology

[Kai]

Here's my "written" contribution to preserving the code.
If someone knows how to generate a "custom" font, here is the key to the font 
symbols.
    http://timederivative.com/KE4PT-secret-msg.jpg
73,
Kai, KE4PT

On 1/21/2017 09:05, Bill wrote:
> From Tony N2MFT:
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> The site doesn't quite work properly but I'm sure it will improve.
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>  Adapting Morse Code to a New Generation of Technology
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> by techfeatured
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> Jan 7, 2017, 11:09 am
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> Morse Code has been in use for more than 160 years in various forms of 
> communications. It was originally designed and adapted for use in the 
> telegraph as a simple and easy way to get messages from one point to another. 
> In morse code each letter is made up of a combination of short and long sounds 
> called dits and dah’s. These dits and dahs are often represented by dots and 
> dashes when writing, although traditionally these have been interpreted as 
> short and long tones in most practical usage. One of the interesting points 
> about morse code is that it can be interpreted by sound, touch, light, almost 
> in any way you can imagine to communicate ideas as long as the pattern of 
> short and long groupings is kept.
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> Many people in today’s world see morse code as a thing of the past, something 
> that is a relic of communications that is now a museum piece. I think there 
> are many practical applications of morse code in modern communications that 
> are often overlooked. For starters, text input on cellphones is one area that 
> I would personally love to see a morse input method. It would be vastly 
> simpler to tap morse on the case of your cellphone than the hunt and peck 
> method that I currently have to suffer through. Don’t know morse? Fine, then 
> offer the morse input as an additional option to the current number pad kludge.
>
> Ringtones though are the area that I have been focused on. I’ve created a 
> website at morseringtones.com <http://morseringtones.com> that has mp3 format 
> audio of morse code for over 9000 common names and locations such as home, 
> work, school. I’ve also generated 27,000 morse code ringtones for various 
> initials up to three characters. Why? Because I use them on my cellphone to 
> identify callers. Tagging contacts with a ringtone has been a tedious and 
> frustrating process for me. What song to pick for each person? How will I 
> remember that for those that it’s not obvious? Not to mention the thought….. 
> do I really want that song coming on anytime this person calls?
>
> So, my solution was to generate morse code of the names in my contact list. 
> It’s simple, short, easy to assign. It helps me to brush up on my recognition 
> of the code also known as cw, which had become a bit rusty and I know exactly 
> what my phone is beeping about, whether it has a new voicemail for me, a new 
> text message or a call from a client. Believe me, if you don’t know it you 
> will learn quickly with this practical use of morse in today’s society.
>
> As I’ve worked on the project of creating these morse code mp3 ringtones I’ve 
> also found several other innovative uses of morse code. Some of these, I 
> think, illustrate very clearly why it should never become a relic of the past, 
> but a useful and necessary tool for communication well into the future. One 
> use in particular was the use of morse as a computer input for paraplegics 
> whose only interaction with a computer can be through a puff sip tube. What of 
> voice recognition for them then you say? There are people that cannot speak 
> either. More often than not people tend to use the most efficient means of 
> communication and that is perhaps why morse is not in as widespread use today 
> as more efficient modes of communication are accessible for most of us. But 
> it’s important to remember that not everyone has access to a keyboard to type 
> or the ability to pick up the phone and call someone.
>
> These are just a few ways that I think morse code is still relevant today and 
> can remain relevant and useful in the years to come. Using morse ringtones can 
> be a quick and easy way to restudy and recognize morse code, but beyond simple 
> ringtones it needs to be available as an input method for computers and 
> possibly even phones if not only for the convenience of those that understand 
> it, but for those that have little choice but to use that as an input method 
> due to disabilities.
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