home bbs files messages ]

Just a sample of the Echomail archive

<< oldest | < older | list | newer > | newest >> ]

 Message 3612 
 Anton Shepelev to alexander koryagin 
 73! Morse telegraph ;) 
 04 Mar 21 16:31:10 
 
MSGID: 2:221/6.0 6040ef2e
REPLY:  bc077d9b
PID: SmapiNNTPd/Linux/IPv6 1.3 20210227
CHRS: CP437 2
TZUTC: 0200
TID: hpt/lnx 1.9.0-cur 2021-02-17
Alexander Koryagin:

AK> When  you  write  a  Morse  text  you  need  three  sym-
AK> bols -- the third symbol is  needed  to  divide  letters
AK> from each other. It is a ternary code. In binary code it
AK> is not necessary because every byte has 8 bits.

I did not realise it. I thought that decyphering did not re-
quier character separators.  See also:

   Is Morse Code binary, ternary or quinary?
   https://cs.stackexchange.com/questions/39920/is-morse-code-bi
ary-ternary-or-quinary

--- 
 * Origin: nntp://news.fidonet.fi (2:221/6.0)
SEEN-BY: 1/19 123 16/0 19/10 90/1 105/81 120/340 123/130 131 129/305
SEEN-BY: 203/0 221/1 6 360 226/30 227/114 702 229/101 424 426 664
SEEN-BY: 229/1016 1017 240/1120 2100 5138 5411 5824 5832 5853 249/206
SEEN-BY: 249/317 261/38 280/5003 282/1038 317/3 320/119 219 319 322/0
SEEN-BY: 322/757 335/364 342/200 423/81 640/1384 2454/119 4500/1 5020/1042
PATH: 221/6 1 320/219 240/5832 229/426


<< oldest | < older | list | newer > | newest >> ]

(c) 1994,  bbs@darkrealms.ca