On 16/02/2008 at 19:21 [email protected] wrote:
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>silver wire and tuning coils wound on varnished bog-roll
You mean you _varnished_ your bog-rolls?
>My family have been instructed, that should I suffer some incapacitating
>illness that appears to deprive me of speech they should try using the morse
>code in various audible, tactile and visual forms!
A couple of examples of using Morse in similar circumstances:
1) About 20 years ago the son of a Belgian amateur was in hospital after a road
traffic accident. The lad was unable to speak, but had been learning Morse, so
was provided with a key and buzzer and could then communicate. His first
request was for a drink of grape juice.
2) About 1969, a team at Standard Telecommunications Laboratories produced a
voice writer for an amateur who had considerable difficulty speaking. I don't
think he used it on air but he made Morse sounds into the microphone and the
results were printed out.
John F5VLF
PS I am copying Pat's suggestion to my XYL in case... In the meantime, I agree
with Pat that we should not disparage technology. I have had a wrist problem
for a long time and have not used a straight key for years. This e-mail is
being dictated using voice recognition software and I hope later this year to
be back on the air using an iambic keyer or something similar
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