(October 4, 2020 at 8:45 am)onlinebiker Wrote:(October 3, 2020 at 6:58 pm)ignoramus Wrote: I'm so old I used to listen to my favorite hits on morse code.
I was the guy sending it....
Seriously.
I have a high speed code certificate from the USCG.
35 words per minute send/rcv.
Impressive! I opted for semaphore for my First-Class badge in Boy Scouts...because it mostly made sense with patterns. Does that count? I found Morse to be more difficult to learn, without clear patterns. Yes, I know it has assigned shorted codes based on relative letter usage frequency, but that didn't make it any easier to learn.
In those days, I was thought to be a "nerd" or a "geek". Today, I'd probably have been identified as "on the spectrum". Oh, well.
Disappointing theists since 1968!
