-- . ..-. .. / -- . ..-. .. / -.. . / . ...- --- / . ...- --- / -- ... --. / .... .- ...- . / .--. .- -. -.-. .- -.- . ... / -.-. .- -- . .-. .- ... / . -. -.. / . .

April 24, 2005 7:47 PM

TTT TTT TTT CQ DE NMO NMO STRY OF USCG RM2 HERMAN, J. DTY OP NMO 500KHZ, FRMR INTL CW CALL AND DISTRESS FREQ.
US CW WATCH ENDED 12-July 1999 WHEN KFS KPH SK BUT KPH RESSURECTED YR LATER AS KSM K
posted by eriko (18 comments total)

Damn that's a lot of initials, anagrams, and nomenclature!
posted by Balisong at 8:01 PM on April 24, 2005

Whoa, flashbacks of being an admin clerk and writing memos for the teletype machines.

REF TEL CON, REQR ADV RECCE NLT Z000029APR05

Hehe, thanks for the link.
posted by furtive at 8:01 PM on April 24, 2005

Great link...I was a RM in the Navy, but never had to learn morse code. During Radioman school in San Diego they gave us a morse code test and I failed miserably. I used to stand guard at their school barracks though, and as I walked through the bay at 3:00 in the morning I could hear morse code being played on walkman's that everyone put on before going to bed. Those crazy bastards used to sleep to morse code playing in their ears all night!
posted by UseyurBrain at 8:51 PM on April 24, 2005

This SOS story is riveting.

To quote a Jawbreaker song, it's pretty heavy.
posted by intermod at 8:56 PM on April 24, 2005

Whatever is this post going to do to our Gunning-Fog Index?
posted by wendell at 9:10 PM on April 24, 2005

intermod--thanks for the link. Very heavy.
posted by codeofconduct at 9:46 PM on April 24, 2005

Neat stuff, and anything to do with Monterey CA is always great.
posted by buzzman at 10:11 PM on April 24, 2005

I actually understood all of that.

Bill (K5WCB)
posted by mrbill at 11:07 PM on April 24, 2005

I'll always remember my father (WA4KKY/W4JWM) teaching me my name in morse... da, dit da dit, dit, da dit da da. His greatest failure as a father had to have been buying me a 486 when I was 13 instead of Ham gear. I devoted all my energy into learning computers instead of radio like he wanted me to.

I wonder how much more mechanically inclined I would have become learning amplifiers and antennas when my mind was a curious mush instead of software.
posted by trinarian at 11:17 PM on April 24, 2005

nice page title as well, too bad I dont understand it? Anyone able to translate moarse code?
posted by wheelieman at 6:31 AM on April 25, 2005

[.... .. ... / .. ... / --. --- --- -..]

.--. ... / .-- .... . . .-.. .. . -- .- -. --..-- / --. --- --- --. .-.. . / .. ... / -.-- --- ..- .-. / ..-. .-. .. . -. -..
posted by bonaldi at 7:20 AM on April 25, 2005

curses. First line is of course:
[- .... .. ... / .. ... / --. --- --- -..]
posted by bonaldi at 7:21 AM on April 25, 2005

bonaldi: - ..- / --- -- / -.- / . .
posted by eriko at 7:58 AM on April 25, 2005

I actually understood all of that.

Me too. 76 DE WB2KHA BT
posted by ZenMasterThis at 7:59 AM on April 25, 2005

Me three, CUL es 73 de N9XS.
posted by OneOliveShort at 8:31 AM on April 25, 2005

Don't worry, there will always be drunk ruskies that will pick your fluttering SOS over the pole. When it gets cold they QRV up the elusive slim V0DKA and listen all night long.
posted by sled at 9:55 AM on April 25, 2005

Read that before - good stuff. I bought a reproduction clock of the type described, it sits above my HF ham station.

73 de ae4rv
posted by ae4rv at 9:52 PM on April 25, 2005

...above my Vibroplex.
posted by ae4rv at 9:59 PM on April 25, 2005