Re: Morse Code Day (27 April)

On 2024-04-28, Aidan Kehoe <kehoea@parhasard.net> wrote:

Something that we don’t (didn’t) have in English but that, e.g. German did was
a widely-known mnemonic for the codes. The deleted entry on the German
Wikipedia for it is here:
https://de-academic.com/dic.nsf/dewiki/976551/

I don't think I've ever seen this before.
If it was deleted from Wikipedia, that fact should give you pause.

Each syllable with an <O> was a dash, each syllable without was a dot. I
presume anyone who went to the Bund in .de in the 80s and 90s can remember
their Morse code as a result;

Morse code was not part of basic training, nor was it part of the
additional introductory radio operator course I did.  The NATO/ICAO
spelling alphabet was.

I don't want to get too political, but it is important to realize
that compulsory military service does not produce trained soldiers.
In fact, we were explicitly told that the military would not waste
resources on training us beyond the absolute minimum, given that
we would be gone again after a year.

I hear being able to use Morse code has traditionally been the most
difficult part of getting an amateur radio license, for anybody
inclined to do so.

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de