2026-10-26 17:42 UTC
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@mallory@hachyderm.io 2026-10-26 20:42
@Mehrad@fosstodon.org Learn morse code, get your amateur radio licence, and get on the airwaves!
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@MuhammadFreeSoftware@fosstodon.org 2026-10-26 17:49
@Mehrad@fosstodon.org I think braille. If for some reason you get blind (I hope that's not going to happen), you'll still be able to read the labels on medicines and stuff like that. I can't see any benefit learning Morse code would give you, maybe you do?
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@dj3ei@mastodon.radio 2026-10-26 22:26
@Mehrad@fosstodon.org How "important" is #MorseCode? If there is any question of utility involved, #MorseCode is out, imho. From a technical point of view, it is obsolete. Integrate a potent CPU (costing less than a pizza) with your radio and enjoy fast and stable data transfer, surpassing Morse. Yet Morse is practiced by hobbyist, nerds, almost all of them #hamRadio amateurs. We enjoy it (I'm one of those code aficionados). There are even many regular radio competitions done entirely or partly in Morse.
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@dj3ei@mastodon.radio 2026-10-26 22:48
@Mehrad@fosstodon.org If you decide to learn #MorseCode, watch out that you do not practice, train, and ingrain habits now, in the early stages of learning, that you will need to painfully un-learn later. "Farnsworth spacing" is a red flag, if it leaves enough time for thinking. As a fast telegraphist later, you will have no time for thinking. So do not train it now. Go for subconscious processing from day one. Having suffered through the unlearning, I write about this a lot, e.g., https://mastodon.radio/@dj3ei/113485276380330635