I Always Loved The Morse Code Opening


I alway loved the Morse Code opening to news reports. Reminds me of Walter Winchell.

In this video clip I believe we have a new parliamentary rule (not found in Roberts Rules of Order). That would be the Respect Rule. Women take precedence over men. Blacks have precedence over whites. And the universal unwritten rule. Eighth graders are smarter than any politician.

H/T Reason Magazine via Insty. Walter Winchell Audio clip from Old Time Radio.

posted by Simon on 05.03.08 at 10:50 AM





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I believe the traditional phrase for what is shown here is "OWNED!".

The obvious question was why Ms. Council Member lets those kids and a camera in -- what did she expect to happen? What seemed to be an isolated incident of bad behavior has quickly become a pattern of disrespect and rudeness.

MondegreenMom   ·  May 3, 2008 01:01 PM

It isn't morse code. It wasn't for Winchell, either.

It always surprises me when they use fake morse code, as if there weren't a million people out there who knew morse. Which even makes it easy to get a sample of the real thing. Just ask somebody.

Get Smart had a morse bit, and apparently used an actual ham on the crew to send them a little.

real audio. It's real morse, but random characters (etinatmlla).

That keeps a million people from thinking : it's fake morse.

Ron Hardin   ·  May 3, 2008 04:23 PM

Ron,

I was a ham - never got above 5 WPM - and then promptly forgot it. I did get a Technician license so I could have been a General had I ever gotten my code speed up.

It sounded like Morse to me.

M. Simon   ·  May 3, 2008 04:37 PM

I was a ham as a kid, loved morse. I was up around 35wpm but couldn't write that fast, off the W1AW sessions. Comfortable morse is around 20wpm. The whole appeal is the sound of well-sent morse, as to spacing and starting characters at elegant instants. A fractional delay or advance in a character sometimes makes the perfect group.

There used to be, long ago, a FSK station (OLU) at exactly 21.000 MHz, sending one frequency for key up and another for key down. What they sent, over and over endlessly, was

VVV VVV VVV DE OLU OLU OLU

The ``backwave'' tone (key up) had the most pleasant rhythm you'd ever heard. People left that playing just for the hell of it, as they worked on this or that.

It would not itself, however, have passed for morse, even though it sounded nice.

Ron Hardin   ·  May 3, 2008 04:48 PM

I was a builder.

A few years back I built a Regen Reciever that covered about 9 to 11 MHz. It used a Colpitts Ckt. for regen with regen controlled by base current into the xistor.

It was kind of cute. I got the ckt from a Cuban amateur group. Yeah. One of Fidel's guys. It was a neat design and eliminated coil winding. I used a 10.7 MHz IF can for the tuned ckt.

I posted what I did so it is probably out there somewhere. Some one even reviewed it and said it was pretty good.

M. Simon   ·  May 3, 2008 04:56 PM

So, you think your tough huh?

Well that dont matter much. Yous is gotta get wiser.

The Wise Guy is a channel on youtube run by this 16 yr old dedicated, in it's entirety to converting 'bureaucratic hot air ' that you see on the news into something that YOU can USE on the street and in the office. Get ahead by thinking ahead and think ahead thru information. Here it is: The Wise Guy.
You can call it whatever you want. This is everything from a living philosophy to a power politics guide.

renaissance21wiseguy   ·  May 4, 2008 08:27 AM


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