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eHam Forums => CW => Topic started by: WA2ONH on January 05, 2023, 04:31:36 PM
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ARTICLE: Looking to Ditch Twitter? Morse Code Is Back
From the SmithsonianMag.Com site, an article from the January-February 2023 issue:
Looking to Ditch Twitter? Morse Code Is Back by Larry Kahaner
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/morse-code-back-looking-ditch-twitter-180981309/
Reviving a 200-year-old system, enthusiasts are putting the digit back in digital communication.
"For almost 20 years, Steve Galchutt WG0AT, a retired graphic designer, has trekked up Colorado
mountains accompanied by his pack of goats to contact strangers around the world using a
language that is almost two centuries old, and that many people have given up for dead.
On his climbs, Galchutt and his herd have scared away a bear grazing on raspberries, escaped
from fast-moving forest fires, camped in subfreezing temperatures and teetered across a rickety
cable bridge over a swift-moving river where one of his goats, Peanut, fell into the drink and
then swam ashore and shook himself dry like a dog. “I know it sounds crazy, risking my life
and my goats’ lives, but it gets in your blood,” he tells me by phone from his home in the
town of Monument, Colorado. Sending Morse code from a mountaintop—altitude offers ham radios
greater range—“is like being a clandestine spy and having your own secret language.”
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Thank you for sharing this article. Sure is nice when ham radio is brought to others through other media. WG0AT has been doing a great job of helping spread the word. Again, thank you. Craig W9OD