Your essay Jim perfectly displayed how once a person gains proficiency sending and receiving information using a variety of Morse code equipment they understand how Morse code was a great leap forward in long distance communication.
During the early 70s I earned an amateur radio license from the federal goverment.
My license was called "Extra Class" because I had mastered much of the details relating to radio technology.
To this day I can still send and receive more than 40 words per minute.
The receiving part depends upon how proficient the sender is at using Morse code.
Automated equipment eventually allowed many more people to use Morse code. But such equipment could never replace the unique style a person who turned what you heard into something akin to a symphony.
Early on in my fascination with Morse code I learned how to mimic the beauty of old timers who knew how to send Morse code in much the same way Jimi Hendricks bent guitar notes.
We are however pushing much of the older technology into the dust bins of history.
Most people do not understand how fragile our nation is to high doses of Electromagnetic attacks.
Extreme sun spot activity can make long range radio communication unreliable, and even damage our electricity infrastructure.
The most dangerous issue to our modern technology is the potential for country to explode an Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Attack weapon.
Such an attack would also make much of the electronic devices we take for granted, such as the Global Positioning System, or the computers we use daily, including the computers in all modern vehicles and household appliances fit only as large paper weights.
In terms of cars and trucks such an attack would turn much of our transportation infrastructure back to the 40s and 50s when there was little or no high tech equipment on cars and trucks.
Another interesting column, especially to an old commo man who got recycled during SF training at Ft. Bragg before I gained enough speed sending and receiving to pass the required word groups handled per minute.
Ah, the good olde days...Still hoping that San Diego State will see the value in the former CMA collection to our community and reopen a dedicated technology history museum one day...
When they acquired the stadium site for their "campus west," they said they wanted to have some kind of attraction to bring the community to the campus. I wrote the president, the AD, and met with the campus historian pointing out that they have the world's largest collection of Information Age artifacts sitting in the basement of their library. Crickets ...
Your essay Jim perfectly displayed how once a person gains proficiency sending and receiving information using a variety of Morse code equipment they understand how Morse code was a great leap forward in long distance communication.
During the early 70s I earned an amateur radio license from the federal goverment.
My license was called "Extra Class" because I had mastered much of the details relating to radio technology.
To this day I can still send and receive more than 40 words per minute.
The receiving part depends upon how proficient the sender is at using Morse code.
Automated equipment eventually allowed many more people to use Morse code. But such equipment could never replace the unique style a person who turned what you heard into something akin to a symphony.
Early on in my fascination with Morse code I learned how to mimic the beauty of old timers who knew how to send Morse code in much the same way Jimi Hendricks bent guitar notes.
We are however pushing much of the older technology into the dust bins of history.
Most people do not understand how fragile our nation is to high doses of Electromagnetic attacks.
Extreme sun spot activity can make long range radio communication unreliable, and even damage our electricity infrastructure.
The most dangerous issue to our modern technology is the potential for country to explode an Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Attack weapon.
Here are some details:
https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Electromagnetic_warfare
The most powerful EMF attack would come from a high altitude explosion of a powerful nuclear bomb.
See https://www.dhs.gov/news/2020/09/03/dhs-combats-potential-electromagnetic-pulse-emp-attack
Such an attack would also make much of the electronic devices we take for granted, such as the Global Positioning System, or the computers we use daily, including the computers in all modern vehicles and household appliances fit only as large paper weights.
In terms of cars and trucks such an attack would turn much of our transportation infrastructure back to the 40s and 50s when there was little or no high tech equipment on cars and trucks.
Jim will like this… Sea Scout training!!!
Jim,
Another interesting column, especially to an old commo man who got recycled during SF training at Ft. Bragg before I gained enough speed sending and receiving to pass the required word groups handled per minute.
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Ah, the good olde days...Still hoping that San Diego State will see the value in the former CMA collection to our community and reopen a dedicated technology history museum one day...
When they acquired the stadium site for their "campus west," they said they wanted to have some kind of attraction to bring the community to the campus. I wrote the president, the AD, and met with the campus historian pointing out that they have the world's largest collection of Information Age artifacts sitting in the basement of their library. Crickets ...
I will!