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G6KUI > MORSE 05.06.06 14:11l 61 Lines 2297 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
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/\ndy G0FTD wrote.....
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} Some simple questions if anyone is interested.
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} 1)If you were beacon monitoring, what method would be the most useful.
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} For this you have to assume that you are NOT a radio amateur but an SWL.
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} a) A timer/software device that letsyou know when an IARU beacon is
} transmitting so you don't have to know Morse
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} or
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} b) Make some attempt at decoding the Morse, even if it means writing what
} you hear in dot dash fashion on a bit of paper to decode the beacon
} callsign.
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} 2)Do you agree that Morse is part and parcel of the HF bands, regardless of
} whether you prefer to use it or not.
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To answer the first part of Andy's query, I would select the THIRD option
that Andy did not offer.
*IF* you want to auto-decode the beacons then why not use morse reading
software. Some of this software is very accurate for machine sent morse,
not so good for the hand-sent variety. A lot of beacons also send data
bursts of one form or another.
*IF* you want to manually read the beacons then do so, either by properly
learning it and doing it off the cuff, or the long way of writing down all
the dits and dahs and using a lookup table.
When I've wanted to, I've used the latter, rather than ask someone who
supposidly "knows morse" who usually comes up with the wrong callsign.
As to Andy's second question, as to whether morse is part and parcel of the
HF bands. The answer is "only on the bands that are morse only".
Morse *CAN* be the preferred method on the upper microwave bands if that
is what turns you on. It can be most useful on vhf/uhf repeaters if there
is no-one around and you need to identify which repeater you are receiving
and there is no-one around to answer you. Again in days gone by before the
introduction of subaudible tones, if you are on a high spot you may open
up 6 or more repeaters simultaniously and being able to decode the morse
idents was the only method of identification.
Apart from the morse ident of unmanned stations which goes across the whole
amateur frequency spectrum from DC to light where morse is invaluable for
ident purposes, morse is in fact just another mode that you either use or
don't use and has no more significance than that.
73, Pete G6KUI
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