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Take the letter Z for instance sent badly spaced. It could be TD, MI, GE,
TTEE. A proficient cw operator would be able to identify the context in which it
was being sent and read it accordingly. Presently it could not be read by a
machine.
A high speed computer could have a stab at the various possibilities and
produce something but a miss is as good as a mile !!!!!!!!!!!! gibberish.
In real time decoding the complete morse code badly hand sent, Baghdad
morse, would be difficult for a machine to interpret
It would be pointless developing a machine to read this sort of morse
anyway, there are numerous machine generated data modes better suited for
moving large volumes of traffic and easily decoded by other machines. The only
human input is probably a keypad and that is about the only rattle they might
recognise.
The average radio amateur today is an appliance operator and probably never
heard about morse code or a soldering iron. Avoid them both!!
G3KEV
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Sent: Friday, February 15, 2008 11:23
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Subject: Re: LF: CW Skimmer
Actualy I do not agree with that statement. It is only in the present
state of the art that you might say that a machine cannot read poorly sent
morse. It is not so many years ago that the present state of the art was
considered beyond the reach of machines!
It is surely not beyond the wit of man to imagine that a future
generation of machines and their programmes (I hesitate to use the word
software deliberately) might not only decode a data stream called "morse" but
actually interpret its "meaning" using rules based on language, useage and
machine-based artificial intelligence!
In the same way that the modern radio amateur has become an operator of
"black boxes" who is to say that the next generation of Black Boxes will not
become an operator of radio amateurs?
Some would say that this is alraeady the case!
73 de Pat
G4GVW es gd dx
Qth near Felixstowe, UK
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