| ▲ | re 6 days ago |
| A CW Key is apparently a switch used for transmitting Morse code. Make sure to click through to the individual pages to see them in use, e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghx3r_OFmt4 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_CW_Operators%27_Club https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telegraph_key |
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| ▲ | Barbing 6 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| Great video. Trying to think of another activity where one hand is doing something so complex while the rest of the body practically looks bored. Nothing comes to mind. |
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| ▲ | jdietrich 5 days ago | parent | next [-] | | For a skilled CW operator, it's just like touch-typing. There's no conscious effort involved in either sending or receiving. You hear words, not dits and dahs, and your hand just sends whatever you're thinking automatically. | |
| ▲ | alanbernstein 5 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | Video games? |
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| ▲ | whizzter 5 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Some of these would make great oldschool spy- or detective-movie props, like the rubber stamp being overlooked by "stupid" detectives whilst the smart detective directly connect it to a callsign to uncover the murder victims secret life with regards to ham operations. |
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| ▲ | kevindamm 5 days ago | parent [-] | | I've seen morse code written around the border of images (e.g. Spy vs Spy did this) which easily goes ignored by the uninitiated, and even when noticed can often escape further detection. Another note: since in the US there are only four letters allowed as the first letter (A, K, N, or W) and will be 4-6 characters with further restrictions on which can be letters and which can be numbers (2-by-3 being the most common, 1-by-2 and 2-by-1 only being available to higher license classes, where those are the numbers of letters before and after the region identifying number). You could use this in your detective story, along with other details like inferring where they got their license from or getting more details from the FCC. Following this up with an inspection of the radio and which frequency was recently used, could make for some interesting detective work. Ham Radio doesn't make very many appearances as a plot device. | | |
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