Don't tune out. Translation follows.
DIT DAH DIT
DAH
DAH DIT
DAH DIT DIT DAH
DIT DIT DAH DIT
DIT
DIT DAH DIT
DAH DAH DIT DAH
DIT DIT DIT
DAH DAH DAH
DAH DIT DIT
DIT
DAH DIT
DIT
DIT DIT
DIT DAH DIT DIT
DIT DIT DIT
DAH DIT DAH
Translation:
R TNX FER QSO DE NEIL SK
Further translation: I acknowledge receipt of your message thanks for the conversation from Neil End
And thanks to all here for tolerating my silliness.
For those who want a little more information about the genius of Samual Morse, he developed his code so the most frequently used letters had the shortest code time.
For example, DIT = E, DIT DIT = I.
The least used letters used the longest code: Z = DAH DAH DIT DIT, Q = DAH DAH DIT DAH.
You might have noticed that I sent FER insted of FOR. We do this because the code for FER is shorter than that for FOR. We also use DE instead of FROM or THIS IS since it is shorter.
There is a mathematical measure for coding efficiency called coding entropy. Morse's code has a very low entropy, meaning it is highly efficient. The ASCII code used to represent characters for character storage on computers and over networks has a comparatively high entropy (low efficiency).
So, in an effort to et back on topic for this board, I suggest that it would be neat if part 15 stations identified in Morse Code. Twenty words per minute sounds almost like music.
Hope you had as much fun as I did with this post.
Neil
