Leece is a Western Australian artist living in Perth, on Whadjuk Nyoongar boodjar. She likes drawing animals and is interested in sf&f, nature and kayaking, Me-Moving and reading and lots of other stuff!
Thursday, 17 January 2013
Very successful Morse session today, I think I might finally have
kicked the D, K, R and W issues I was having...
Very successful Morse session today, I think I might finally have kicked the D, K, R and W issues I was having enough to move on to the next formal lesson. I had hit a wall rather.
+duncan flint I have always wanted to since I was little. I don't know what drew me to it then. The thought of a secret language perhaps.
But as I have grown up I feel its ability to be able distill communication down to the bare minimum is quite stunning, whether you are making someone's screen flicker or shining a light across the water.
It is an important part of telecommuncation history and nautical history in Western Australia, I was particlarly impressed by the remains of the big station on Cape Leeuwin that transmitted Morse out to sea hundreds of kilometres like a mighty lighthouse, but could reach much further than any lighthouse indeed, to let ships work out their positions.
There are ex professional telegraph operators at the Royal Agricultural Show who do demonstrations...you can send a telegram message across the showgrounds!
And the ability for Morse to get through where nothing else can, it is amazing. Can't hear voice over your VHF? Try bursts of static in dit dahs!
Add to this my interest in keeping alive while at sea and having completed my marine vhf course, it all just percolated round to me finally hunkering down and starting to seriously learn it.
just wondered if (firstly) you meant morse code, and secondly what propose it served nowadays. You provided an interesting argument. The last point makes a whole lot of sense.
Youre learning morse code? May I ask why?
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ReplyDelete+duncan flint I have always wanted to since I was little. I don't know what
ReplyDeletedrew me to it then. The thought of a secret language perhaps.
But as I have grown up I feel its ability to be able distill communication
down to the bare minimum is quite stunning, whether you are making
someone's screen flicker or shining a light across the water.
It is an important part of telecommuncation history and nautical history in
Western Australia, I was particlarly impressed by the remains of the big
station on Cape Leeuwin that transmitted Morse out to sea hundreds of
kilometres like a mighty lighthouse, but could reach much further than any
lighthouse indeed, to let ships work out their positions.
There are ex professional telegraph operators at the Royal Agricultural
Show who do demonstrations...you can send a telegram message across the
showgrounds!
And the ability for Morse to get through where nothing else can, it is
amazing. Can't hear voice over your VHF? Try bursts of static in dit dahs!
Add to this my interest in keeping alive while at sea and having completed
my marine vhf course, it all just percolated round to me finally hunkering
down and starting to seriously learn it.
Why do you ask? :-)
just wondered if (firstly) you meant morse code, and secondly what propose it served nowadays. You provided an interesting argument. The last point makes a whole lot of sense.
ReplyDeleteDuncan Flint It is fun and challenging too.
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