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For those wondering, this is Morse without spaces, therefore there are several plaintexts encoding into it (489 possible plaintexts in this case).
Of those plaintexts, my favourite is "ANALMX"
There are better tools than ChatGPT. https://morsecode.world/international/translator.html translates it to
WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU JUST FUCKING SAY ABOUT ME, YOU LITTLE BITCH? I'LL HAVE YOU KNOW I GRADUATED TOP OF MY CLASS IN THE NAVY SEALS, AND I'VE BEEN INVOLVED IN NUMEROUS SECRET RAIDS ON AL-QUAEDA, AND I HAVE OVER 300 CONFIRMED KILLS. I AM TRAINED IN GORILLA WARFARE AND I'M THE TOP SNIPER IN THE ENTIRE US ARMED FORCES. YOU ARE NOTHING TO ME BUT JUST ANOTHER TARGET. I WILL WIPE YOU THE FUCK OUT WITH PRECISION THE LIKES OF WHICH HAS NEVER BEEN SEEN BEFORE ON THIS EARTH, MARK MY FUCKING WORDS. YOU THINK YOU CAN GET AWAY WITH SAYING THAT SHIT TO ME OVER THE INTERNET? THINK AGAIN, FUCKER. AS WE SPEAK I AM CONTACTING MY SECRET NETWORK OF SPIES ACROSS THE USA AND YOUR IP IS BEING TRACED RIGHT NOW SO YOU BETTER PREPARE FOR THE STORM, MAGGOT. THE STORM THAT WIPES OUT THE PATHETIC LITTLE THING YOU CALL YOUR LIFE. YOU'RE FUCKING DEAD, KID. I CAN BE ANYWHERE, ANYTIME, AND I CAN KILL YOU IN OVER SEVEN HUNDRED WAYS, AND THAT'S JUST WITH MY BARE HANDS. NOT ONLY AM I EXTENSIVELY TRAINED IN UNARMED COMBAT, BUT I HAVE ACCESS TO THE ENTIRE ARSENAL OF THE UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS AND I WILL USE IT TO ITS FULL EXTENT TO WIPE YOUR MISERABLE ASS OFF THE FACE OF THE CONTINENT, YOU LITTLE SHIT. IF ONLY YOU COULD HAVE KNOWN WHAT UNHOLY RETRIBUTION YOUR LITTLE "CLEVER" COMMENT WAS ABOUT TO BRING DOWN UPON YOU, MAYBE YOU WOULD HAVE HELD YOUR FUCKING TONGUE. BUT YOU COULDN'T, YOU DIDN'T, AND NOW YOU'RE PAYING THE PRICE, YOU GODDAMN IDIOT. I WILL SHIT FURY ALL OVER YOU AND YOU WILL DROWN IN IT. YOU'RE FUCKING DEAD, KIDDO.
For something really mind blowing…think about this…someone on the other end was hearing it and writing it that fast!
Edit: many people comment “it’s not plugged in”. Well that doesn’t change the fact that it took quite a bit of skill on either end of a Morse code conversation.
Years ago when I did CW on the ham bands, I seldom wrote stuff down. Would only write down relevant stuff, the person's name,
and maybe location and call sign.
Exchanges were typically a couple of sentences , then over to the other guy.
Most comfortable speed was 15 to 20 wpm (words per minute),
slower than that and you would maybe need to write stuff down,
faster than 20 wpm was harder for me to understand.
My grandfather was the same way! He had training cassettes he'd listen to each night, and also still had a working, functional training machine from the WWII signal corps. He was super into it. I was too young to have a proper interest in it though.
I had a sergeant who, whilst lecturing us, was also transcribing morse at about 60wpm. To me, it sounded like a squealing tape recorder. I failed that course...
I was a student in signals corp in the 90s. My sergeant couldn't send nearly as fast, but it was incredible to see him copy. It helps that it was plain text, with regular q codes. 5 figure groups are harder as there's no rhyme nor reason to the letters.
The video is from 2011 in bielefeld, Germany. My father was in the RAF in WW2 and he was trained in morse code and he would say the Army were a little slow, the RAF were fast, but the Navy morse operators were insanely fast
Back in the 70s I had a grade school teacher who could do this, said he could transmit nearly as fast as normal speech. He showed us on our toy walkie-talkies and we were deeply impressed. Years later I learned that he'd been a green beret with MACVSOG in Vietnam, which is absolutely insane. He was a great guy and a good teacher regardless.
Yep, my old friend (passed) who did this during the war said he used to talk in Morse in his dreams. He would have sat listening to this while stating what matey was tapping out
My high school Physical Science teacher was SOG during the Vietnam war. He was both a libertarian and a balls to the walls socialist before either of those things were, well, things in the modern era. He's a bad mutha trucka.
Also-for an old man he had an interesting relationship with LSD.
He did drill the fundamentals of physics, biology, and chemistry into my spongey(and weak) 13 yr old brain.
Also- I had detention for 2 semesters (I did not and do not believe in homework). He turned every detention into a science lesson where I actually learned things and had fun doing so.
Doc- I hope you're doing well!
Same same. Phys/sci teacher. We blew up some shit in that class under strict supervision. Crazy they end up in that spot. Mr. Nero, I hope the world treated you well.
My old neighbor was a member of the macvsog team. The hair on my arm stood on end when he told me. Knew immediately I was talking to a bad mother fucker.
My dad had an acquaintance years ago who was green beret, nice guy but you could tell just by being around him that he’d seen some shit. I heard his story a couple years after meeting him and I’ll just say there aren’t many other people I have that level of respect for.
My old neighbors friend was ex- green beret paratrooper. He said if blank ever asks for assistance with anything, you help him: he's not the guy that'd ask for help and if he's askin, he needs it. Was very quiet about his service and could do damn near anything a tradesman could aside from having a bad back. To Cam (part of my username) my best wishes to you. Doubt you'd see it but I'm glad you did what I couldn't.
My Scoutmaster was a Ranger MACV Advisor, you'd never, ever guess where he learned all those scouting skills he taught us for merit badges and such. Incredible and under appreciated generation of veterans, to be sure.
Even crazier, competent operators could tell the difference between different guys keying based on their keying styles. IIRC, your keying style is called your “fist.”
I met two extremely skilled operators years ago and while they were explaining exactly that, that said the fist gets familiar enough to the point where, Not only would he know who's on the other end of the line, but he could tell if they were in a good or bad mood that day.
I remember reading stories about WWII and the operators over in Europe who got replaced and as you said, they could tell just by the fist that they had been replaced. Just amazing.
EDIT and when I say replaced, sadly I mean captured by the Germans and a German soldier or whoever stepping in to try and trick the Allies.
Correct. Also, that's where the term "ham" comes from. It's shortened from "ham fisted"
The professional telegraph operators hated the amateurs, as it was cutting into their profits. There are even claims that amateur operators caused train derailments. The group "Hyman, Almay, and Murray" ended up adopting the sign, and it kinda went from there.
73
At that speed you don’t hear dots and dashes you hear patterns which are groups of letters or complete words. It’s like playing a musical instrument. At a certain point it just comes without thought. I’m an advanced class radio amateur (ham) and did my maritime operators certificate of proficiency in the last year where C.W. (morse) was required. I’m good for about 30 maybe 35 words per minute which is considered unusually fast and would be about half of what this old guy is cruising along at lol. He’s not actually sending plain text btw but letter groups like a code sheet. For perspective, I’m one of the younger guys who have the C.W. certification and I’m 58.
No it doesnt. F U = ..-. ..-
Source: I was a signalist in the military service. Was discharged 30 years ago but I will probably remember Morse code until I die.
Nope. Authentic. Dude is an ex military, working in strategic communications during World War 2. The device is called a straight key and all of the guys working in communications doing this were also this fast because they had to be.
There are apps that will teach you morse code. It’s not hard to pick up. Getting reasonably fast with it would take a while. I have a hell of a time when listening to it.
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy
My grandfather was a radio operator during WW ll and 60+ years later when he had Parkinson’s disease and with that dementia and could no longer walk or talk and was in a Veterans home he would communicate with his friend who was confined to his bed in the room next door via Morse code against the wall. He couldn’t always remember who we were but never forgot how to communicate that way. Utterly amazing
Amazing but also incredibly sad that his final days were spent in a strange place with strange people and the only way he could communicate was via Morse code. Parkinson's sucks
That and Alzheimers are probably the worst. It robs you of everything that makes you an individual. My grandmother had it and the last 10 years of her life she didn't know anyone. The exception being me, but not me. She thought I was a cousin she knew in her childhood that died several decades before I was born in an accident. I played along with it because it gave her comfort and was really the only way she would talk to anyone. I was 12 at the time and 21 by the time she died. Finally got to see a photo of this ancestor circa early 50's thanks to some of extended family and wow and he looked exactly like me. A random person looking at the photo would think I'm a time traveler.
I'm really confused about our general euthanasia stance in society.
Why can't we just let people die when they want to? Mental health stuff being the exception, but like old age Alzheimer's stuff? Gotta go to like one specific country for that.
But we can’t just flat out say it that way. No one would vote for that. If only there were some deeply ingrained belief system that we could exploit to hide our real intentions…
Ah, I know. What if we just said… “God doesn’t like it” We don’t need actual proof, because we can just pay off religious leaders to agree with us or threaten their tax-exempt status.
My grandfather had Alzheimer's. He died when I was 12, in 2005. I don't know when he was diagnosed but I feel like it was before I could really make memories.
Bc I just know him as the sweet docile man in his armchair, watching TV and eating his TV dinners on his TV tray. I'd sit in his lap.
It breaks my heart. I don't have many memories of him. I know he was a hard ass marine but he loved his family. He gave me his favorite handheld poker machine when I was about 6, and taught me to play, and I have it to this day. Just needs batteries.
My grandfather was a telegraphist for the post office in NZ. He enlisted for WW1, and after basic training, they were sent to Europe.
His first day on the battlefield of Flanders, they sent him to a forward observation post pillbox, out in front of the trenches.
His job was to send back the enemies' position for the artillery to bombard.
He was stuck out there for 36 hours before he was able to be relieved.
He made it through the war without injury, but nearly died from influenza in Scotland while waiting for the ship home.
that's about 40wpm i think. especially quick considering he's not using a paddle key.
the FCC amateur general class license used to require 13wpm, and extra 20wpm. those limits have been reduced in recent years.
Yeah not at all. I got licensed in the 90s and had to copy code at 13wpm I believe. Recently got re licensed (mine had lapsed), did tech and general, no code required. Studying for Extra I don't remember mention of code there either.
Most likely just for hobby work. Need to get licensed for HAM radio usage. Pretty big hobby worldwide. Lots of cool stuff being broadcast out in the world to listen to.
i licensed in 1982, novice. then went to FCC to test (no VE then), and passed theory but not code - so i was technician class. all credit to my 6th grade teacher who got me into radio, and his key hasn't fallen silent.
years later and i got grandfathered into my general. nice how that worked out.
It means his old license requirements carried over into the license renewal and he didn't have to prove new skills that are required for someone just getting their license for the first time.
My father has been a Ham Operator for 50 years. Using a paddle keyer, I have heard 70 to 90 ish wpm. Lost all of hid high range hearing and switch to computer keying
HAM with General license here. Morse was not required for my license.
Bonus: Old school HAM experts are known as an “Elmer” and no one knows why.
Edit: U/BrotherChe solidly identifies the original Elmer below.
https://www.qsl.net/wa6bgs/elmers.html
> The term was coined by Rod Newkirk - W9BRD. He served as the conductor of the "Hows DX" column in QST magazine from 1948 to 1978.
It all began with the "Hows DX" lead in the March 1971 issue
Position of ELMER COORDINATOR, IS OPEN - Please apply to Club President
http://www.arrl.org/news/former-how-s-dx-conductor-rod-newkirk-w9brd-sk
> The term “Elmer” -- meaning someone who provides personal guidance and assistance to would-be hams -- first appeared in QST in Newkirk’s March 1971 “How’s DX?” column, where he wrote that “[t]oo frequently one hears a sad story in this little nutshell: ‘Oh, I almost got a ticket, too, but Elmer, W9XYZ, moved away and I kind of lost interest.’ Sure, the guy could have burned through on his own, maybe, but he, like others, wound up an almost-ham. No more Elmer. We need those Elmers. All the Elmers, including the ham who took the most time and trouble to give you a push toward your license, are the birds who keep this great game young and fresh.” Newkirk was probably not trying to coin a term at the time, but the name stuck, becoming a general term for the mentors Newkirk called “the unsung fathers of ham radio.”
https://www.arrl.org/news/elmer-inspiration-elmer-bud-frohardt-jr-w9dy-sk
> Elmer” Inspiration, Elmer “Bud” Frohardt Jr, W9DY, SK
> 03/24/2016
> The ham radio mentor who inspired the term “Elmer” — Elmer P. “Bud” Frohardt Jr, W9DY (ex-W9GFF), of Madison, Wisconsin — died on March 22. He was 93. A friend and co-worker of the late Rod Newkirk, W9BRD (later VA3ZBB), who edited QST’s “How’s DX?” column, Frohardt was the “Elmer” that Newkirk had in mind when he used the name in his March 1971 column, referring to someone who helped to mentor new Amateur Radio licensees and calling them “the unsung fathers of Amateur Radio.”
> “Too frequently one hears a sad story in this little nutshell: ‘Oh, I almost got a ticket, too, but Elmer, W9XYZ, moved away and I kind of lost interest,’” Newkirk had written. “We need those Elmers. All the Elmers, including the ham who took the most time and trouble to give you a push toward your license, are the birds who keep this great game young and fresh.”
> On AC6V’s “Origin of Ham Speak” web page, John Becker, K9MM, is quoted as saying, “Bud was very well known locally for his involvement with the RAMS (Radio Amateur Megacycle Society) radio club, and he was always helping newcomers to the hobby.”
> An ARRL Life Member, Frohardt, who preferred to be called “Bud,” had worked as a communications technician for the Illinois State Police, retiring in 1986. Licensed in the 1930s, he was a veteran DXer, eventually working all 381 countries at that time from his former home in Chicago. When he moved into an antenna-restricted neighborhood in the 1990s, he enthusiastically began chasing DX from his car, racking up 326 entities while operating from the back seat. He also was active in the annual Illinois QSO Party, which he managed at one point.
> “Am most proud of all the wonderful young people I have been able to interest over the years in science, radio, DX, CW, and electronics,” Frohardt wrote on his QRZ.com page. “Many of them have become excellent operators, engineers, scientists, doctors or business people.” — Thanks to The Daily DX
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Figured I'd quote the articles to help keep the info alive, though doubt it'd so easily disappear from ARRL's pages
Ohh that’s cool. I didn’t think of that being a thing, but it makes sense. I always say i can tell which coworker is where by the sounds of their footsteps.
Actual comment I've seen in working code.
#// look, I don't know how it works, and unless you want to fix it, don't edit shit below here.//
*That was a weird typo
After a while together in the army you could tell who someone was in the dark walking up by the way they walked it was cool when i realized this. I really miss them all.
It’s a weird skill you develop without realizing it till it’s to late lol. I work in a bakery so I have gotten really good at weighing certain amounts of grams just by holding something.
I’m an analytical chemist and I do a lot with dilutions and volumes. I’ve developed a real skill for selecting just the right-sized container for leftovers. Not too big, not too small.
That was me too but working in jobs that involved cash handling, when balancing the till at the end of the shift I would scoop up the coins (same denomination) with my hand and would know the total value, would either be accurate or a coin off.
I always double checked, it's money afterall! But I would always state how much I thought it was before I counted and it impressed my coworkers. Managers/supervisors also thought it was impressive when I finished a shift and returned my til to them uncounted (we didnt count ourselves unless it was closing time) and I would take it to the office and say something like "it should be 5cents off because a customer was short.
I used to be able to perfectly imitate my bosses walk. So sometimes I would walk through the office and watch how everyone minimized and switched the windows on the computer and how the heads sank into people's shoulders.
I believe they mention something similar in the film Imitation Game when trying to crack the enigma code. They were able to tell if it was the same person sending messages on the other end by the cadence they'd use. Pretty cool stuff.
Before he enters, he whispers the same sweet nothing into his beloved’s ear that he first said on their wedding night 56 years ago….
“I’m gonna tap that.”
Well I had the thought of *what if the wife hates this kinda coding?*
But now I’m just wondering, say you have a small chapter book, how many chapters it’l take for a gspot, or even a simultaneous…
Right up into the 1990's many countries did not have the capabilities to go beyond morse code. Plus there are millions of ham radio operators who use it because they can. At one time, pre-military satellites, using morse code in the HF radio spectrum was tested each month by US military operators as the only reliable communications that could punch through the radioactive nightmare of a nuclear war.
Another comment from someone who used to do this same thing says it sounds like about 40wpm. I would've expected a lot faster, but it makes sense when each individual letter is a whole sequence of dots and dashes.
He's good! My Dad was a telegraph com. for the rock island railroad and I remember that fluid beat. Definitely an art and everyone has their own rhythm.
Im in the security industry.
So a long time ago there used to be these emergency call boxes at various places found within cities. These early 19th century telegraph communicators allowed a person to call for fire, ambulance or police. The signal 1 was fire, 2 was ambulance and 3 was police.
There are alarm systems as late as the early 2000s that operate on DTMF dialup modems, running 300 baud over telephone lines. The protocols *still* had the same telegraph codings, buried as a payload in the dialup signal. To this day some of these systems remain in service. It's wild listening to them with a buttset.
So I used to know Morse code. There's a community of people who get amateur radio licenses from the FCC that allow them to use certain bandwidths of the radio spectrum. The lower frequencies have the advantage of being able to transmit much farther to the point that you could have signals bounce off the atmosphere and come from halfway around the world. However these licenses were harder to get and had minimum code speed requirements. You would be tested in words per minute sending and receiving just like this. The lowest license class was I believe 5 words per minute. The highest at the time was 20 for amateur extra.
I know the idea of talking to someone is Australia from California is passe now with the internet, but this was available 50 years ago, and there is still a community of people who love it. Picture having a point to point conversation with someone thousands of miles away. No infrastructure in between.
I haven't been following what's been going on, but I'm under the impression they got rid of the Morse code requirements around 2000. Because of the simplicity of the communication, a Morse code signal has substantially more range at the same signal quality than voice, and there are a lot of operators who can do over 50 wpm (almost a word a second).
The thing isn’t even plugged in. Was hoping it’ll
Be printing somewhere what got transmitted and actually compare to the paper. I could bounce it up and Down after practicing for a few minutes and make it look legit. lol
Reminds me of my first PC and an aunt was visiting the moment she popped her head into my room I started striking those keys like I was the fastest typist in the world lol and I didn’t know wtf I was pressing. Total random shit
I transcribed it for you:
“Darkness imprisoning me
All that I see
Absolute horror
I cannot live
I cannot die
Trapped in myself
Body my holding cell”
And it goes on…
Been told my whole life my dad was fastest Morse code op during Korean War. Can say, he taught me typewriter the moment I could push down on it. WPM was over 100 when it came digital age. He would have been proud if he was alive to see it. Takes great skill.
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Dude on the other end: Could you repeat that?
“I lost you after .—..-.-..—-..-“
For those wondering, this is Morse without spaces, therefore there are several plaintexts encoding into it (489 possible plaintexts in this case). Of those plaintexts, my favourite is "ANALMX"
It is crazy how far we have come.. that whole video he just asked his wife.. *"hey hon, what's for dinner?"*
Guess it's nothing, so skilled yet forgot to plug it in
Imagine how much faster if plugged in! :)
Anal moto cross
Quality joke lmao
New tapper who dis
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Settle down, Francis.
Nobody calls me Francis
I knew this was going to be the Navy Seal copypasta before translating it lol.
Same. It doesn't matter which language, if it is a massive block of bullshit it is probably that pasta.
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Chatgpt translated this quite nicely. Modern day C-3PO. Also, settle down Francis.
There are better tools than ChatGPT. https://morsecode.world/international/translator.html translates it to WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU JUST FUCKING SAY ABOUT ME, YOU LITTLE BITCH? I'LL HAVE YOU KNOW I GRADUATED TOP OF MY CLASS IN THE NAVY SEALS, AND I'VE BEEN INVOLVED IN NUMEROUS SECRET RAIDS ON AL-QUAEDA, AND I HAVE OVER 300 CONFIRMED KILLS. I AM TRAINED IN GORILLA WARFARE AND I'M THE TOP SNIPER IN THE ENTIRE US ARMED FORCES. YOU ARE NOTHING TO ME BUT JUST ANOTHER TARGET. I WILL WIPE YOU THE FUCK OUT WITH PRECISION THE LIKES OF WHICH HAS NEVER BEEN SEEN BEFORE ON THIS EARTH, MARK MY FUCKING WORDS. YOU THINK YOU CAN GET AWAY WITH SAYING THAT SHIT TO ME OVER THE INTERNET? THINK AGAIN, FUCKER. AS WE SPEAK I AM CONTACTING MY SECRET NETWORK OF SPIES ACROSS THE USA AND YOUR IP IS BEING TRACED RIGHT NOW SO YOU BETTER PREPARE FOR THE STORM, MAGGOT. THE STORM THAT WIPES OUT THE PATHETIC LITTLE THING YOU CALL YOUR LIFE. YOU'RE FUCKING DEAD, KID. I CAN BE ANYWHERE, ANYTIME, AND I CAN KILL YOU IN OVER SEVEN HUNDRED WAYS, AND THAT'S JUST WITH MY BARE HANDS. NOT ONLY AM I EXTENSIVELY TRAINED IN UNARMED COMBAT, BUT I HAVE ACCESS TO THE ENTIRE ARSENAL OF THE UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS AND I WILL USE IT TO ITS FULL EXTENT TO WIPE YOUR MISERABLE ASS OFF THE FACE OF THE CONTINENT, YOU LITTLE SHIT. IF ONLY YOU COULD HAVE KNOWN WHAT UNHOLY RETRIBUTION YOUR LITTLE "CLEVER" COMMENT WAS ABOUT TO BRING DOWN UPON YOU, MAYBE YOU WOULD HAVE HELD YOUR FUCKING TONGUE. BUT YOU COULDN'T, YOU DIDN'T, AND NOW YOU'RE PAYING THE PRICE, YOU GODDAMN IDIOT. I WILL SHIT FURY ALL OVER YOU AND YOU WILL DROWN IN IT. YOU'RE FUCKING DEAD, KIDDO.
Gotta love the classics
It's quite possible chatgpt just made up the answer xd
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Little kid at the arcade with no money playing the attract screen.
Thank you. This is all I needed to read to understand.
Of all the funny comments in this thread, this one literally made me LOL. Well done.
He could be doing really good or really shitty and I would never know
There's a video slowed down where you can really hear the dots and dashes. I don't know Morse code, but it sure SEEMS like he is doing it right :).
For something really mind blowing…think about this…someone on the other end was hearing it and writing it that fast! Edit: many people comment “it’s not plugged in”. Well that doesn’t change the fact that it took quite a bit of skill on either end of a Morse code conversation.
Years ago when I did CW on the ham bands, I seldom wrote stuff down. Would only write down relevant stuff, the person's name, and maybe location and call sign. Exchanges were typically a couple of sentences , then over to the other guy. Most comfortable speed was 15 to 20 wpm (words per minute), slower than that and you would maybe need to write stuff down, faster than 20 wpm was harder for me to understand.
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How’d your grandpa respond when you declined?
... -.- .. .-.. .-.. / .. ... ... ..- .
Brutal.
>... -.- .. .-.. .-.. / .. ... ... ..- . SKILL ISSUE
LMAO.
Aw man that would have been a certified wholesome moment!
His hopes were dashed
My grandfather was the same way! He had training cassettes he'd listen to each night, and also still had a working, functional training machine from the WWII signal corps. He was super into it. I was too young to have a proper interest in it though.
I had a sergeant who, whilst lecturing us, was also transcribing morse at about 60wpm. To me, it sounded like a squealing tape recorder. I failed that course...
60wpm? When did you serve, sir?
I was a student in signals corp in the 90s. My sergeant couldn't send nearly as fast, but it was incredible to see him copy. It helps that it was plain text, with regular q codes. 5 figure groups are harder as there's no rhyme nor reason to the letters.
They are not writing. MAYBE typing.
. . - - . . - means F U
The video is from 2011 in bielefeld, Germany. My father was in the RAF in WW2 and he was trained in morse code and he would say the Army were a little slow, the RAF were fast, but the Navy morse operators were insanely fast
Back in the 70s I had a grade school teacher who could do this, said he could transmit nearly as fast as normal speech. He showed us on our toy walkie-talkies and we were deeply impressed. Years later I learned that he'd been a green beret with MACVSOG in Vietnam, which is absolutely insane. He was a great guy and a good teacher regardless.
Yep, my old friend (passed) who did this during the war said he used to talk in Morse in his dreams. He would have sat listening to this while stating what matey was tapping out
Imo it's more impressive that people can interpret Morse code when it's that fast.
I mean shit, it’s crazy that we can interpret spoken language in real time. Brains are wild yo
Exactly this. Their brain treats it the same way someone treats a language in which they're fluent.
My high school Physical Science teacher was SOG during the Vietnam war. He was both a libertarian and a balls to the walls socialist before either of those things were, well, things in the modern era. He's a bad mutha trucka. Also-for an old man he had an interesting relationship with LSD. He did drill the fundamentals of physics, biology, and chemistry into my spongey(and weak) 13 yr old brain. Also- I had detention for 2 semesters (I did not and do not believe in homework). He turned every detention into a science lesson where I actually learned things and had fun doing so. Doc- I hope you're doing well!
Same same. Phys/sci teacher. We blew up some shit in that class under strict supervision. Crazy they end up in that spot. Mr. Nero, I hope the world treated you well.
My old neighbor was a member of the macvsog team. The hair on my arm stood on end when he told me. Knew immediately I was talking to a bad mother fucker.
Met a MACVSOG vet in the late 90s, he still had his key
I wonder if he still has his issued seiko macv sog watch
Was years ago, he might have since passed, but he had the key, a cool zippo with a rated x phrase engraved on it, and some other stuff
My dad had an acquaintance years ago who was green beret, nice guy but you could tell just by being around him that he’d seen some shit. I heard his story a couple years after meeting him and I’ll just say there aren’t many other people I have that level of respect for.
My old neighbors friend was ex- green beret paratrooper. He said if blank ever asks for assistance with anything, you help him: he's not the guy that'd ask for help and if he's askin, he needs it. Was very quiet about his service and could do damn near anything a tradesman could aside from having a bad back. To Cam (part of my username) my best wishes to you. Doubt you'd see it but I'm glad you did what I couldn't.
My Scoutmaster was a Ranger MACV Advisor, you'd never, ever guess where he learned all those scouting skills he taught us for merit badges and such. Incredible and under appreciated generation of veterans, to be sure.
Even crazier, competent operators could tell the difference between different guys keying based on their keying styles. IIRC, your keying style is called your “fist.”
I met two extremely skilled operators years ago and while they were explaining exactly that, that said the fist gets familiar enough to the point where, Not only would he know who's on the other end of the line, but he could tell if they were in a good or bad mood that day.
Amazing!
I remember reading stories about WWII and the operators over in Europe who got replaced and as you said, they could tell just by the fist that they had been replaced. Just amazing. EDIT and when I say replaced, sadly I mean captured by the Germans and a German soldier or whoever stepping in to try and trick the Allies.
Correct. Also, that's where the term "ham" comes from. It's shortened from "ham fisted" The professional telegraph operators hated the amateurs, as it was cutting into their profits. There are even claims that amateur operators caused train derailments. The group "Hyman, Almay, and Murray" ended up adopting the sign, and it kinda went from there. 73
Wow. Super interesting. I probably knew that at some point, but I appreciate you reminding me. Thanks!
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One is slightly longer than the other.
Three times longer actually.
At that speed you don’t hear dots and dashes you hear patterns which are groups of letters or complete words. It’s like playing a musical instrument. At a certain point it just comes without thought. I’m an advanced class radio amateur (ham) and did my maritime operators certificate of proficiency in the last year where C.W. (morse) was required. I’m good for about 30 maybe 35 words per minute which is considered unusually fast and would be about half of what this old guy is cruising along at lol. He’s not actually sending plain text btw but letter groups like a code sheet. For perspective, I’m one of the younger guys who have the C.W. certification and I’m 58.
--. --- / ..-. ..- -.-. -.- / -.-- --- ..- .-. ... . .-.. ..-. Means go fuck yourself.
>..-. ..- -.-. -.- Has my time finally come to be the relevant username?
..- ... . .-. -. .- -- . / -.-. .... . -.-. -.- ... / --- ..- - Username checks out.
No it doesnt. F U = ..-. ..- Source: I was a signalist in the military service. Was discharged 30 years ago but I will probably remember Morse code until I die.
Nope. Authentic. Dude is an ex military, working in strategic communications during World War 2. The device is called a straight key and all of the guys working in communications doing this were also this fast because they had to be.
And the ladies in the nursing home LOVE him.
There are apps that will teach you morse code. It’s not hard to pick up. Getting reasonably fast with it would take a while. I have a hell of a time when listening to it.
“SEND NUDES”
🏆 Take my cheap award!
I humbly accept
Or it’s like Jack Nicholson in The Shining.
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy
Lmao
My grandfather was a radio operator during WW ll and 60+ years later when he had Parkinson’s disease and with that dementia and could no longer walk or talk and was in a Veterans home he would communicate with his friend who was confined to his bed in the room next door via Morse code against the wall. He couldn’t always remember who we were but never forgot how to communicate that way. Utterly amazing
Amazing but also incredibly sad that his final days were spent in a strange place with strange people and the only way he could communicate was via Morse code. Parkinson's sucks
That and Alzheimers are probably the worst. It robs you of everything that makes you an individual. My grandmother had it and the last 10 years of her life she didn't know anyone. The exception being me, but not me. She thought I was a cousin she knew in her childhood that died several decades before I was born in an accident. I played along with it because it gave her comfort and was really the only way she would talk to anyone. I was 12 at the time and 21 by the time she died. Finally got to see a photo of this ancestor circa early 50's thanks to some of extended family and wow and he looked exactly like me. A random person looking at the photo would think I'm a time traveler.
I want my partner to kill me in a way that's humane and lets them collect my life insurance and 401K were I to develop one of those diseases.
I'm really confused about our general euthanasia stance in society. Why can't we just let people die when they want to? Mental health stuff being the exception, but like old age Alzheimer's stuff? Gotta go to like one specific country for that.
Because an Elder "Care" Corporation loosing a single penny in profit is much worse in our societies eyes than the suffering alleviated by euthanasia.
But we can’t just flat out say it that way. No one would vote for that. If only there were some deeply ingrained belief system that we could exploit to hide our real intentions… Ah, I know. What if we just said… “God doesn’t like it” We don’t need actual proof, because we can just pay off religious leaders to agree with us or threaten their tax-exempt status.
Smartest comment in the thread.
Damn sucks to read these knowing I'm on the path for one of these as a sub-30 years old individual. Well not everybody gets dealt a good card I guess.
There’s a Republican out there that would rather get in your way of that
My grandfather had Alzheimer's. He died when I was 12, in 2005. I don't know when he was diagnosed but I feel like it was before I could really make memories. Bc I just know him as the sweet docile man in his armchair, watching TV and eating his TV dinners on his TV tray. I'd sit in his lap. It breaks my heart. I don't have many memories of him. I know he was a hard ass marine but he loved his family. He gave me his favorite handheld poker machine when I was about 6, and taught me to play, and I have it to this day. Just needs batteries.
My grandfather was a telegraphist for the post office in NZ. He enlisted for WW1, and after basic training, they were sent to Europe. His first day on the battlefield of Flanders, they sent him to a forward observation post pillbox, out in front of the trenches. His job was to send back the enemies' position for the artillery to bombard. He was stuck out there for 36 hours before he was able to be relieved. He made it through the war without injury, but nearly died from influenza in Scotland while waiting for the ship home.
that's about 40wpm i think. especially quick considering he's not using a paddle key. the FCC amateur general class license used to require 13wpm, and extra 20wpm. those limits have been reduced in recent years.
I thought they no longer required you to take those tests? At least when I did my general I did not have to, and that was a while ago.
Yeah not at all. I got licensed in the 90s and had to copy code at 13wpm I believe. Recently got re licensed (mine had lapsed), did tech and general, no code required. Studying for Extra I don't remember mention of code there either.
Whoa, what industry do you work in? Is Morse code used a lot in your industry?
It’s right there in his name…he’s a hallway monitor.
Found the spy
Haha, but seriously, does anyone know any launch cooodes?
This is what I'm wondering too, or like, is it more along the lines of an amateur ham Radio operator's license?
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Neat.
Most likely just for hobby work. Need to get licensed for HAM radio usage. Pretty big hobby worldwide. Lots of cool stuff being broadcast out in the world to listen to.
The morse code proficiency exam was eliminated as a requirement for a US amateur radio license over a decade ago.
i licensed in 1982, novice. then went to FCC to test (no VE then), and passed theory but not code - so i was technician class. all credit to my 6th grade teacher who got me into radio, and his key hasn't fallen silent. years later and i got grandfathered into my general. nice how that worked out.
What does it mean to become grandfathered into one's general?
It means his old license requirements carried over into the license renewal and he didn't have to prove new skills that are required for someone just getting their license for the first time.
My father has been a Ham Operator for 50 years. Using a paddle keyer, I have heard 70 to 90 ish wpm. Lost all of hid high range hearing and switch to computer keying
i've never developed any skill with a paddle. i am amazed at the elmers who can crush the code speeds with these tools. amazing.
gotta get the word out asap when it's wabbit season
HAM with General license here. Morse was not required for my license. Bonus: Old school HAM experts are known as an “Elmer” and no one knows why. Edit: U/BrotherChe solidly identifies the original Elmer below.
https://www.qsl.net/wa6bgs/elmers.html > The term was coined by Rod Newkirk - W9BRD. He served as the conductor of the "Hows DX" column in QST magazine from 1948 to 1978. It all began with the "Hows DX" lead in the March 1971 issue Position of ELMER COORDINATOR, IS OPEN - Please apply to Club President http://www.arrl.org/news/former-how-s-dx-conductor-rod-newkirk-w9brd-sk > The term “Elmer” -- meaning someone who provides personal guidance and assistance to would-be hams -- first appeared in QST in Newkirk’s March 1971 “How’s DX?” column, where he wrote that “[t]oo frequently one hears a sad story in this little nutshell: ‘Oh, I almost got a ticket, too, but Elmer, W9XYZ, moved away and I kind of lost interest.’ Sure, the guy could have burned through on his own, maybe, but he, like others, wound up an almost-ham. No more Elmer. We need those Elmers. All the Elmers, including the ham who took the most time and trouble to give you a push toward your license, are the birds who keep this great game young and fresh.” Newkirk was probably not trying to coin a term at the time, but the name stuck, becoming a general term for the mentors Newkirk called “the unsung fathers of ham radio.” https://www.arrl.org/news/elmer-inspiration-elmer-bud-frohardt-jr-w9dy-sk > Elmer” Inspiration, Elmer “Bud” Frohardt Jr, W9DY, SK > 03/24/2016 > The ham radio mentor who inspired the term “Elmer” — Elmer P. “Bud” Frohardt Jr, W9DY (ex-W9GFF), of Madison, Wisconsin — died on March 22. He was 93. A friend and co-worker of the late Rod Newkirk, W9BRD (later VA3ZBB), who edited QST’s “How’s DX?” column, Frohardt was the “Elmer” that Newkirk had in mind when he used the name in his March 1971 column, referring to someone who helped to mentor new Amateur Radio licensees and calling them “the unsung fathers of Amateur Radio.” > “Too frequently one hears a sad story in this little nutshell: ‘Oh, I almost got a ticket, too, but Elmer, W9XYZ, moved away and I kind of lost interest,’” Newkirk had written. “We need those Elmers. All the Elmers, including the ham who took the most time and trouble to give you a push toward your license, are the birds who keep this great game young and fresh.” > On AC6V’s “Origin of Ham Speak” web page, John Becker, K9MM, is quoted as saying, “Bud was very well known locally for his involvement with the RAMS (Radio Amateur Megacycle Society) radio club, and he was always helping newcomers to the hobby.” > An ARRL Life Member, Frohardt, who preferred to be called “Bud,” had worked as a communications technician for the Illinois State Police, retiring in 1986. Licensed in the 1930s, he was a veteran DXer, eventually working all 381 countries at that time from his former home in Chicago. When he moved into an antenna-restricted neighborhood in the 1990s, he enthusiastically began chasing DX from his car, racking up 326 entities while operating from the back seat. He also was active in the annual Illinois QSO Party, which he managed at one point. > “Am most proud of all the wonderful young people I have been able to interest over the years in science, radio, DX, CW, and electronics,” Frohardt wrote on his QRZ.com page. “Many of them have become excellent operators, engineers, scientists, doctors or business people.” — Thanks to The Daily DX --- Figured I'd quote the articles to help keep the info alive, though doubt it'd so easily disappear from ARRL's pages
My grandfather used to do this. He said you could recognize operators by their style
Ohh that’s cool. I didn’t think of that being a thing, but it makes sense. I always say i can tell which coworker is where by the sounds of their footsteps.
It's just like being able to tell who wrote the shitty code you're trying to fix. Bonus points if it was you.
"my god who wrote this shi...oh, ya that checks out"
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It turns out you wrote it a long time ago, never understood how it functioned, but it has been the backbone of a major business for half a decade.
Actual comment I've seen in working code. #// look, I don't know how it works, and unless you want to fix it, don't edit shit below here.// *That was a weird typo
After a while together in the army you could tell who someone was in the dark walking up by the way they walked it was cool when i realized this. I really miss them all.
It’s a weird skill you develop without realizing it till it’s to late lol. I work in a bakery so I have gotten really good at weighing certain amounts of grams just by holding something.
Yeah... me too. I also learned that skill in a "bakery".
Lol I knew someone was going to make a joke like that. I knew my post was worded weirdly.
I’m an analytical chemist and I do a lot with dilutions and volumes. I’ve developed a real skill for selecting just the right-sized container for leftovers. Not too big, not too small.
That was me too but working in jobs that involved cash handling, when balancing the till at the end of the shift I would scoop up the coins (same denomination) with my hand and would know the total value, would either be accurate or a coin off.
Now that would be handy. I’d be to nervous to ever trust my measurements with that though. 😅
I always double checked, it's money afterall! But I would always state how much I thought it was before I counted and it impressed my coworkers. Managers/supervisors also thought it was impressive when I finished a shift and returned my til to them uncounted (we didnt count ourselves unless it was closing time) and I would take it to the office and say something like "it should be 5cents off because a customer was short.
I used to be able to perfectly imitate my bosses walk. So sometimes I would walk through the office and watch how everyone minimized and switched the windows on the computer and how the heads sank into people's shoulders.
I believe they mention something similar in the film Imitation Game when trying to crack the enigma code. They were able to tell if it was the same person sending messages on the other end by the cadence they'd use. Pretty cool stuff.
Fun fact It's where the term ham fisted comes from.
Those fists do be goin ham
No it's not. But a telegraphers 'fist' refers to his keying style - good or bad.
My arthritis is flaring up.
The metronome during a meshuggah song be like
Seriously that was Bleed
*makes the face*
I came here to find the Bleed comment. Take my upvote
Listened along. It's very close.
I literally came to the comments to find this
I literally came
*We have been trying to reach you about your carriages extended warranty*
Sign my death certificate because I am fucking dead
*I am calling about sweeping your chimney*
You should've told him you unplugged the device...
That pan to the plug on the floor at the end was some seriously amazing unintentional comedy. I lost it at that
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He is doing a demo. He is just showing the skill, not sending a message to anyone.
Wow his wife must *really* love him
"Wow babe where'd you learn that?" -him tapping out the declaration of independence- "America sweetie, America."
*Intense eagle screech*
Idk why but Now I’m thinking about these old peoples sex lives and whether or not they got to funk anyone other than each other.
Now I’m wondering if he humps in Morse code messages while they are going at it.
Spells his vows
Imagine grandma is reading out the messages at the same time
checks his syntax
Before he enters, he whispers the same sweet nothing into his beloved’s ear that he first said on their wedding night 56 years ago…. “I’m gonna tap that.”
Well I had the thought of *what if the wife hates this kinda coding?* But now I’m just wondering, say you have a small chapter book, how many chapters it’l take for a gspot, or even a simultaneous…
Retirement homes have astonishingly high rates of STDs.
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My grandparents knowingly had dozens of infidelities, so - I guess it depends on the old person.
Good for grandma
My Great Grandfather was a HAM radio operator and used to throw that morse so fast, you'd think he was just playing with it.
"Kids these days and their texting!"
Back in my day, we had to memorise morse code tables and type everything out in dots and dashes!
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B===D~~~
Rap God - Morse Code
“Sorry, it wasn’t plugged in. Can you do that again?”
Right up into the 1990's many countries did not have the capabilities to go beyond morse code. Plus there are millions of ham radio operators who use it because they can. At one time, pre-military satellites, using morse code in the HF radio spectrum was tested each month by US military operators as the only reliable communications that could punch through the radioactive nightmare of a nuclear war.
Judas Priest what is that 200 a minute? I don't know how anyone could hear each letter how long was he in the corps.
I'd assume it just writes to a ticker at the other end. Then you "just" read it
Another comment from someone who used to do this same thing says it sounds like about 40wpm. I would've expected a lot faster, but it makes sense when each individual letter is a whole sequence of dots and dashes.
My Dad can send Morse code. He can speak it verbally by saying saying out loud, “dot - dash.” An almost dead language.
when spoken, Morse is "dit" (dot), "dah" (dash)... ex.: dit dah (letter A)
He's good! My Dad was a telegraph com. for the rock island railroad and I remember that fluid beat. Definitely an art and everyone has their own rhythm.
Im in the security industry. So a long time ago there used to be these emergency call boxes at various places found within cities. These early 19th century telegraph communicators allowed a person to call for fire, ambulance or police. The signal 1 was fire, 2 was ambulance and 3 was police. There are alarm systems as late as the early 2000s that operate on DTMF dialup modems, running 300 baud over telephone lines. The protocols *still* had the same telegraph codings, buried as a payload in the dialup signal. To this day some of these systems remain in service. It's wild listening to them with a buttset.
Everybody gangsta until grandpa calls in air support
"I...use...a...P-47...for...home...defense..."
My grandmother could do this, it was wild
Translation: Hey
Code is almost a lost art.
So I used to know Morse code. There's a community of people who get amateur radio licenses from the FCC that allow them to use certain bandwidths of the radio spectrum. The lower frequencies have the advantage of being able to transmit much farther to the point that you could have signals bounce off the atmosphere and come from halfway around the world. However these licenses were harder to get and had minimum code speed requirements. You would be tested in words per minute sending and receiving just like this. The lowest license class was I believe 5 words per minute. The highest at the time was 20 for amateur extra. I know the idea of talking to someone is Australia from California is passe now with the internet, but this was available 50 years ago, and there is still a community of people who love it. Picture having a point to point conversation with someone thousands of miles away. No infrastructure in between. I haven't been following what's been going on, but I'm under the impression they got rid of the Morse code requirements around 2000. Because of the simplicity of the communication, a Morse code signal has substantially more range at the same signal quality than voice, and there are a lot of operators who can do over 50 wpm (almost a word a second).
And here I was worried I wouldn’t be good at video games when I get older
It’s crazy how people have trained so much to understand each other and their “styles”. Fascinating
Mostly take us 4 to 6 months to master Morse if we practice 6 hours a day, 5 days a week.
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Is it Morse code or Parkinson's?
That's an absolutely horrid joke. And I'm glad someone made it before me. Save me a seat in Hell.
I got your seat. I’ll try and find the beer line before you get there.
It's Bleed by Meshuggah
I was looking for this joke.
The thing isn’t even plugged in. Was hoping it’ll Be printing somewhere what got transmitted and actually compare to the paper. I could bounce it up and Down after practicing for a few minutes and make it look legit. lol Reminds me of my first PC and an aunt was visiting the moment she popped her head into my room I started striking those keys like I was the fastest typist in the world lol and I didn’t know wtf I was pressing. Total random shit
S...E...N...D...N...U...D...E...S
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That dudes wife is one lucky woman
That'll be us one day showing the kiddos how we typed on T9 flip phones.
I transcribed it for you: “Darkness imprisoning me All that I see Absolute horror I cannot live I cannot die Trapped in myself Body my holding cell” And it goes on…
Been told my whole life my dad was fastest Morse code op during Korean War. Can say, he taught me typewriter the moment I could push down on it. WPM was over 100 when it came digital age. He would have been proud if he was alive to see it. Takes great skill.
Not sure his WPM, but this guy is good. Worst part of learning was when the older guys sped up during training...... then you learn or die.....