Happy Morse Code Day to all who celebrate!

[ve7wyc@mstdn.ca]

Happy Morse Code Day to all who celebrate!

https://nationaltoday.com/morse-code-day/

#amateurradio #hamradio #cw #morsecode

[mcdanlj@social.makerforums.info]

@VE7WYC Petition to change the date of celebration to Alfred Vail's birthday, since he was the one with the idea that you could send letters themselves instead of just numbers referencing a code book as Samuel Morse intended?

Or Friedrich Gerke's birthday, since the code we use today is more his invention, and doesn't have both short and long dashes, enabling the proverbial ham-fisted operators to still be understood sometimes?

[f4lub@mastodon.radio]

@VE7WYC Just Made a QRS CW contact with another FISTS member. TU for the reminder

[ve7wyc@mstdn.ca]

@F4LUB Great!!

[m0khr@mastodon.radio]

@VE7WYC I didn't know the dude was a painter.

[ve7wyc@mstdn.ca]

@M0KHR Neither did I

[m0khr@mastodon.radio]

@VE7WYC

Wikipedia article about him is like 'Morse did great paintings, and yeah, he invented something else in his spare time too'

[ve7wyc@mstdn.ca]

@M0KHR That is pretty amazing.