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35 unusual facts about Morse code


An Xiao Mina

In 2009, she started the Brooklyn Museum's Twitter commission, 1stfans, with a project involving Morse code.

Beaumanor Hall

The park became a secret listening station where encrypted enemy signals (Morse code) were intercepted and sent to the famous Station X at Bletchley Park (by motorbike everyday) for decoding.

Cardwell Bush Telegraph

A message can be sent by Morse code and an interactive display demonstrates Cardwell's role in the telegraph line race between Queensland and South Australia.

Carl Person

His service included two years on Okinawa as a ship to shore high speed radio operator, to send and receive Morse code.

Civil defense siren

A "Black Warning", also for manual sirens, was either a Morse code 'D' (— · ·) or three quick tones, indicating imminent danger of fallout.

Eolomea

The cause of all these strange events is the mysterious signals in Morse code coming to earth from the constellation Cygnus.

Eucla, Western Australia

The station was important as a conversion point because South Australia and Victoria used American Morse code (locally known as the Victorian alphabet) while Western Australia used the international Morse code that is familiar today.

Fleming valve

Although the contact, reported November 12, 1901, was widely heralded as a great scientific advance at the time, there is also some skepticism about the claim, because the received signal, the three dots of the Morse code letter "S", was so weak the primitive receiver had difficulty distinguishing it from atmospheric radio noise caused by static discharges, leading later critics to suggest it may have been random noise.

Harrison Gray Dyar

Dyar also had the idea of spacing the sparks in such a way as to form an alphabetic code and developed out this code years before Morse developed his Morse code.

Harry A. Sieben

In 1968, Sieben joined the United States Army Reserve, where he served seven years with the Military Intelligence Branch working as a Morse code intercept operator and platoon leader.

Infernal Affairs III

Before the picture fades into the next scene, the camera pans down onto Lau's fingers tapping out in Morse code, "H-E-L..." (and then the start of another 'L' as the picture dims).

JJY

The time signals included announcements of the time, in both Morse code and by a female voice, before every tenth minute: for example, "JJY JJY 1630 JST" (the voice announcement of the time being in Japanese).

Joel Porte

Intellectually curious from an early age, he mastered Morse code and obtained, at the age of fourteen, a licence to operate the radio station W2YIR.

Johnny Got His Gun

Joe successfully communicates these desires with military officials by banging his head on his pillow in Morse code.

Jozef Murgaš

The tone system is the use of two signals of different frequencies, i.e. Murgaš substituted the "dot" of the Morse code with a higher tone and the "dash" with a lower tone (this is the 1904 patent "The way of transmitted messages by wireless telegraphy").

Letter frequency

Likewise, Modern International Morse code encodes the most frequent letters with the shortest symbols; arranging the Morse alphabet into groups of letters that require equal amounts of time to transmit, and then sorting these groups in increasing order, yields e it san hurdm wgvlfbk opjxcz yq.

Maidenhead Locator System

This position information is presented in a limited level of precision to limit the amount of characters needed for its transmission using voice, Morse code, or any other operating mode.

Music for Prague 1968

The trombones imitate air raid sirens, and the oboes play sections of Morse code.

Nat Allbright

Nathan Matthew "Nat" Allbright (November 26, 1923 – July 18, 2011) was an American sports announcer who specialized in doing play-by-play radio broadcasts of games that he had never seen, using information sent using Morse code from the stadiums where the games were played to provide listeners with vivid recreations of the actual games, in which Allbright would describe each pitch and play, combined with sound effects to make the depiction more vivid to listeners.

NSS Annapolis

The NSS transmitter fed one million watts of radio energy to its antenna, and during idle times, transmitted the string "W W W VVV VVV VVV DE NSS NSS NSS" in Morse code.

Optical communication

Only 12 simple standardized instructions are directed at aircraft using signal light guns as the system is not utilized with Morse code.

When electronic equipment is not employed the 'receiver' is a person visually observing and interpreting a signal, which may be either simple (such as the presence of a beacon fire) or complex (such as lights using color codes or flashed in a Morse code sequence).

Pio Pion

World War II brought another halt to the company's production, as it was arranged for it to produce Morse code-machinery.

Polybius square

Indeed it can be signalled in many simple ways (flashing lamps, blasts of sound, drums, smoke signals) and is much easier to learn than more sophisticated codes like the Morse code.

Punkte

#The sound texture is perforated by rests, sounding like Morse code

Q and Z signals

Q and Z signals are brevity codes widely used in Morse code radio telegraphy.

Raul Midón

Midón is an avid amateur radio enthusiast, and in this song he also incorporates his call sign (KB5ZOT) by using Morse code.

SOS Allstars

The group performed a purely percussive track written for the event by Roger Taylor with SOS in Morse code being the prime motif, and finishing with the drum solo from Queen's We Will Rock You to open the Live Earth show in London.

Spy vs. Spy

He cryptically 'signed' each strip on its first panel with a sequence of Morse code characters that spell "BY PROHIAS".

Sub-Rosa Subway

Two minutes and fifty seconds into the song, a long message in Morse code plays in the background.

The Last Chase

McCarthy rigs a radio receiver and listens in on Williams's cockpit radio communications, then establishes a dialog with him using Morse code via a hand-held spotlight.

Tom Baugh

Tom is also a member of the Salvation Army Team Emergency Radio Network and is an FCC Federal Communications Commission licensed Amateur radio operator using all modes of communication including Morse code

TVB News

The starting sequence of the news features the sound of the Morse code signal for "NEWS TODAY"

V-Man

V-Man debuted in the first issue of Fox Feature Syndicate’s V Comics; the title is often listed as “V...– Comics” because three dots and a dash—the Morse code signal for the letter V—overlapped the V on the cover.

Vintage amateur radio

Amateur radio Glowbug enthusiasts can often be heard communicating on the shortwave bands via CW using Morse code.


2-meter band

By speeding up Morse code using an audio tape recorder (this is an obsolete method), or using a computer and digital modes such as JT6M or FSK441, very short high speed bursts of digital data can be bounced off the ionized gas trail of meteor showers.

Amateur Radio High Altitude Ballooning

Long duration flights frequently must use high frequency custom built transmitters and slow data protocols such as RTTY, Hellschreiber, Morse code and PSK31, to transmit data over great distances using little battery power.

Cambridge Bay LORAN Tower

Today the tower is used as a Non-directional beacon (NDB) and is often called the "CB" beacon after the morse code letters that it transmits on 245 kHz, with an output power of 2000 watts.

Charles Apgar

This Rube Goldberg machine allowed him to record Morse code radio signals picked up by his receiver on wax cylinders.

Northeast Cape Air Force Station

The detachment's Morse code intercept operators and Russian language linguists were tasked with the surveillance and collection of voice and electronic signals, to be forwarded to the National Security Agency for intelligence analysis.

Oberkommando der Wehrmacht Chiffrierabteilung

It controlled directly the personnel at the main intercept stations at Ludwigsfelds and of the subsidiary stations at Treuenbrietzen and Lauf which is used to intercept encrypted diplomatic Morse network signals.

Transatlantic crossing

Transatlantic radio communication was first accomplished on December 12, 1901 by Guglielmo Marconi who, using a temporary receiving station at Signal Hill, Newfoundland, received a Morse code signal representing the letter "S" sent from Poldhu, in Cornwall, United Kingdom.

Worked All Zones

Specialty awards are available for establishing two-way contact with stations in all 40 zones using certain transmission modes including: CW, AM, SSB, amateur radio satellites, Radioteletype (RTTY), a digital mode other than RTTY, or Slow-scan television (SSTV).