how long did it take to train people in this,did the code have to be coded? --. --- -.. / .. / .... .- ...- . / -... . . -. / --- -. / .... . .-. . / - --- --- / .-.. --- -. --. -..-. -.. --- . ... / .. - / ... .... --- .-- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morse_code
My first career. Raf telegraphist.. Before moving on. 76 i learnt morse at cosford. The rhyming method.. Each charecter to a tune or rhyme hence each night fulton block, cosfords old slum castle block would resound to trainees banging on pipes upsetting none tels and causing fights in corridoors.. Morse was a dying trade, but falklands sent mod into a panic and those of us still with good speeds found ourselves in 38 tcw 38 gp to support black buck. The sf still had and retain today speed morse facility and methods. With that i bow out. Youve reminded me i should be on proper vets sites.
Some people have a flair for it, most people don't! Even today with all sophisticated communication methods and encoding, morse code will always have a use, especially at sea. Sometimes it is very desirable that no electronic signals be sent between two ships at sea, for example, (just like in Hunt for Red October -)or perhaps from ground to air - morse is unique in that it can be sent by signal mirror, flashlight or any number of other messages, many of which do not involve electronic signals.
