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For today's 10000: amateur radio operators call Morse code "CW" since it's a Continuous Wave (unmodulated) transmission while you're pressing the key. The most
by thombles 1y ago
For today's 10000: amateur radio operators call Morse code "CW" since it's a Continuous Wave (unmodulated) transmission while you're pressing the key. The most basic kind is a straight key which simply transmits when you push and stops when you let go. Electronic keyers often use iambic paddles/buttons where you use one switch to create a series of "dits" and the other switch to create "dahs" yourself, which is less physically demanding and lets you hit higher WPM. There are examples of both types here.
- throw-qqqqq 1y ago> For today's 10000 Just in case someone didn’t catch the reference: https://xkcd.com/1053/ https://xkcd.com/1053/
- swiftcoder 1y agoYou can't 10,000 the 10,000...
- pkdpic 1y agoSomebody could probably throw out the probability of those two 10,000 sets overlapping. Not me though, unless it's 10,000^2...
- type0 1y agoIt's never 10,000^2. But the important part is: It's Over 9000!
- swiftcoder 1y agoThe Venn diagram of "people who regularly read xkcd" and "people who think about morse code" is pretty much a circle
- actionfromafar 1y agoYou wouldn't 10,000 a car.
- thunderbong 1y agoMobile view https://m.xkcd.com/1053/ https://m.xkcd.com/1053/
- low_tech_love 1y agoNice, they used an obscure reference to explain another obscure reference, requiring two nested levels of explanation.