On December 12 and 13 the FITSAT-1 CubeSat will be sending Morse code by flashing its array of super-bright LEDs. Depending on local conditions, the light may be visible to the naked eye and will be easily visible through binoculars. The LEDs will send “HI DE NIWAKA JAPAN.”
The satellite will be visible over the eastern half of the United States on the morning of December 12. The LEDs will flash…
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Producer Steven Spielberg has used Amateur Radio or Morse code in three of his last four movies: Super 8 (2011), The Adventures of Tin Tin (2011) and Lincoln (2012). Members of the Morse Telegraph Club (MTC) — an association of retired railroad and commercial telegraphers, historians, radio amateurs and others with an interest in the history and traditions of telegraphy and the telegraph indus…
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04/01/2012
On April 1, Google announced that it has unveiled a new way to use its popular Gmail e-mail system. Called Gmail Tap, it uses dots and dashes to form letters, a system of communicating that should be very familiar to radio amateurs. “Morse code is perfect,” said Gmail Tap Engineer Mitch Fedenko. “It’s just a dot and a dash. What’s simpler than that?”
According to Google, Gmail Tap will let you tap without looking at your screen, replace the 26-key keyboard with two keys and double productivity by typing two e-mails at once.
“Technology is everywhere today,” explained David Brook, Google Vice President for Communication Services in a video announcing Gmail Tap, “and everyone has a smart phone. Think about the size of [a smart phone]. It’s only two inches, two-and-a-half inches, and we’re trying to cram an entire 26-key keyboard into that space. It’s time to think about ‘How can we do this better?’ using the technology that we have today. And that’s where Gmail Tap comes in.”
Gmail Tap replaces the default keyboard in the Gmail application with one that only has two buttons: One for a dot and one for a dash. Brook said that every single letter in the alphabet can be spelled out by using just these two characters.
The QWERTY keyboard — invented in 1874 — is still used today, largely unchanged. “In Morse code, every letter of the alphabet is represen
ted by a simple pattern of dots and dashes, and once you know them, you can type without even looking at your screen,” Brook said. “This makes it ideal for situations where you need to discreetly send e-mails, such as when you’re on a date or in a meeting with your boss.” [Editor’s note: If your boss knows Morse code, this option might not work for you.]
When Google Software Engineer Reed Morse came to Brook with the idea of bringing Morse code back, Brook said he got “really excited.” Morse claims that Samuel F.B. Morse — the creator of Morse code — was his “great-grandfather’s grandfather’s brother.” Morse is also the Lead Engineer for Gmail Tap.
Benefits of Gmail Tap include a split-screen function, enabling you to send two messages at once, to two completely different recipients. “Gmail Tap multitasking, it’s an improvement over speech,” Brook said. “You can say two things with your fingers that your mouth can only say one of. People are going to be twice as productive, and people are going to be able to write e-mails anytime they want.” A planned “ship-to-shore mode” will “activate your phone’s flash to communicate with other power users across an ocean (of people).” Also planned for the future is the Double-Black Diamond mode that will “add a third, fourth and more keyboards for writing up to eight messages at once.”
Gmail Tap Product Lead Todd Smith said that “you can tap it in the morning, you can tap it at night, you can tap it in the bathroom. It [takes] a dot and a dash to have a conversation with the entire world. It’s great!”
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Using a microcontroller, I can key in morse code, and the dits and dahs are automatically recognized and converted into text. For source code and more information, go to www.nerdkits.com
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Curved wall, with morse incription. This was done by local sculpter Stephen Broadbent. I won’t spoil it by telling you what it says.
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Exhibitions inside Hut 8 at Bletchley Park. It was Alan Turing’s workplace during the war.
This is Hut 8 at Bletchley Park. The interiors. Hut 8 was where Alan Turing worked, and now houses a special exhibitons area.
It was the hut where the unit broke the German Enigma Naval messages, and where important figures such as Alan Turing and Hugh Alexander worked.
Various morse code machines.
Including typewriters.
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