Re: REVIEW: "Good Night Old Man", George Campbell

["Marc" <marc () marcd org>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu [mailto:Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2011 09:17
> To: Marc
> Cc: funsec () linuxbox org
> Subject: Re: [funsec] REVIEW: "Good Night Old Man", George Campbell
>
> On Wed, 14 Dec 2011 07:02:46 EST, Marc said:
>
> Let's think about that for a moment - it *also* means that between here
> and Zanzibar, *nobody else* is trying to talk on 154.342.  In other
> words, the set of people trying to talk on Morse is roughly comparable
> in size to the set of people who still make buggy whips.
>
> If you ask around, you can find somebody to teach you how to nap flint
> into an arrowhead too.  Doesn't mean it's not pretty much a dead
> technology.

Um...no....There can be many people on the same frequency - this is a
frequent (pun intended) occurrence.  In fact, there are CW 'nets' where
people from around the world participate.  It requires other lost arts -
those commonly referred to a 'manners'.  Also, CW takes little spectrum
(band width); one can often sneak in CW where an analog voice signal won't
fit without causing interference.

In fact, morse code was arguably the first digital communication medium ...
ham radio is also directly or indirectly responsible for some technologies
in use today..including 802.11...known to hams as 'packet radio' well before
Starbucks discovered it....but I digress.

Communication technology has gone from digital (morse code) to analog and is
now going back to digital in RF communications.  A full circle, so I guess
the morse code users had it right from the beginning - the technological
advance is just a matter of speeding the transmission rate up a bit :-).

BTW..You are correct - napping flint for arrow heads is archaic...I nap
flint so it fits in the lock of my flint lock rifle....

That's all for me on this thread...all this typing is much too difficult on
this plastic keyboard when compared smooth, comfortable action of my brass
code keys...




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