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As a kid I got my ham radio license. Recently the FCC removed the requirement to learn morse code. Yet it's becoming more popular than ever. It's an extremel
by grandalf 15y ago
As a kid I got my ham radio license. Recently the FCC removed the requirement to learn morse code. Yet it's becoming more popular than ever.
It's an extremely efficient way to communicate (a watt or two is all that is often necessary to communicate across the country or even the world).
- WalterBright 15y agoWhat I find amusing is all the modern schemes to try to communicate with one button (such as you see on a cell phone), whereas morse code does the job very well. The neato things about morse: 1. you can key in the message without needing to look at the phone display 2. disabled people enter it efficiently if all they can do is tap (it just kills me to see them, like in Breaking Bad, using a bell while an aide moves a finger along an alphabet board) 3. one doesn't need to read morse code, a computer can ably decode it