Re: 73! Morse telegraph ;)
  By: Anton Shepelev to mark lewis on Fri Mar 05 2021 15:42:10


note: quote attribution MS manually corrected to ML below...

 AS>>> I did not realise it. I thought that decyphering did
 AS>>> not requier character separators.  See also:

 ML>> how would you decipher this without character
 ML>> separators?

 ML>>   .--...-.-.-...

 AS> I thought Morse code was like variable-width Unicode in this
 AS> regard, where the prefix is sufficent to decide whether a
 AS> character is terminated or another dash or dot is pending.
 AS> Now I see I was wrong.

yeah, there is no prefix in morse... it is too old to have such concepts...

FWIW: the above line i wrote without any silence spacing is ABCD but it could be decoded as one of several others depending on how one breaks it apart...

  .-  -...  -.-.  -...
  A   B     C     D

speed is another factor with morse code... if you can easily hear 20WPM but have problems at 30WPM, you might miss some things and get a wrong decode...


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