"Jim Hampton" wrote:
"Steveo" wrote in message
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"Jim Hampton" wrote:
Hi gang!

Just for some grins, check this out:
http://www.lildobe.net/video/

It will take a bit of time for the folks on dial-up, but it is worth
remembering that those two guys were not setting any speed records.
It sounded about like the commercial CW circuits on the marine bands
I listened to about 37 years ago ....

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

73 from Rochester, NY
Jim AA2QA

Hello Jim.

Is CW considered a binary of sorts?

Are you enjoying your new internet pipe?

Hello, Mopar

Some call it binary, but the fact that there are both short and long
characters as well as short and long spaces (spacing between characters
is shorter than spacing between words) leads me to not consider it
"binary". When I wrote a Morse code decoder, I was using a base 3 system
to decode it. At least if I recall correctly. I still have the source
code but haven't looked at it for about a decade.

Too much info you CW machine you! I've heard it wasn't intended as
a binary but it's not totally unlike one.

I am *loving* this new pipe! I booted the computer, the wave file played
as Windows started up, I hadn't clicked on Explorer, I bent over to pick
up a magazine, and when I looked at the computer, the anti-virus had
already downloaded and installed the update! )

73 from Rochester, NY
Jim AA2QA

I can't imagine ever going back to dial-up unless I end up broke in
my old age. Rock-on.