Re: [PATCH -ac] Panicking in morse code

[Richard B. Johnson]

On Mon, 29 Jul 2002, Bill Davidsen wrote:

> On Fri, 26 Jul 2002, Albert D. Cahalan wrote:
> 
> > Jens Schmidt writes:
> > 
> > > I am not a "morse" guy myself, but appreciate this idea.
> > 
> > Yeah, same here. I have to wonder if morse is the
> > best encoding, since many people don't know it.
> > The vast majority of us would need a microphone and
> > translator program anyway, so a computer-friendly
> > encoding makes more sense. Modems don't do morse.
> 
> What other widely known encoding for blinking lights did you have in mind.
> Clearly there are more people who know morse than any other encoding you
> could make up, and even those who don't know it would know what it is.
> 
> -- 
> bill davidsen <[e-mail]>
>   CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
> Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.
> 

The Morse Code we are talking about is not the "rip-snorting" 20
words/per/minute that Radio Operators and Hams use. Instead it's
the 3 to 5 words/per/minute code you hear on aircraft navigation
radios, used by all pilots to identify navigation aids. The
'beep' you hear from a ^G is the "dash". A shorter one makes the
"dot".

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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