“I find that incredibly hard to believe. For starters, an “O” is three long dashes. By the time you are done with those, a good texter could type a word while the morse operator has produced one letter.”
When morse is done properly at high speed you don’t here it as individual dots and dashes but more like music tones of dits and dahs. Each letter has a recognizable rhythm. Good operators hear the rhythm as complete words.
Usually musicians make the best code operators.
Good operators hear the rhythm as complete words.
Usually musicians make the best code operators.
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Also doesn’t hurt to be a little ‘whacko’....
I used to get into a ‘trance’ copying long grouped messages but was able to carry on a conversation while doing so.
I also did some encryption/decryption so I did have to be accurate when copying....
3 dits 4 dits 2 dits daaah
Radio Radio RAH RAH RAH
The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dogs back
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I copied Morse for 20 years and it didn’t affect me a bit
Did it. Did it. Did it.
What I find almost comical about this is that I remember reading a story a few years ago that, if I remember correctly, Morse Code was being abandoned by the military just as they abandoned the slide rule.
That would make sense.
How would a court reporter/transcriptionist fare?