Oh God no....
12 years ago
As some of you may have surmised, I do Amateur Radio.
Despite the elimination of being able to send and receive Morse code to obtain a license, several magazines still have an almost monthly article about how to build a key to send code with.
Then I stumbled across this;
http://gizmodo.com/378314/a-fleshli.....-by-fucking-it
It's really just a pressure transducer, you could set a threshold to decide "key on, key off" and, well, send code with it.
Telegraphy has some short hand phrases called Q-Signals, QRS for example means "Please send slower" and one of the "joke" ones is QLF for "Please send with your left foot instead."
So of course in this case you'd have QFF and QFS for faster and slower respectively.
And I can only imagine the hilarity when someone shows up with it at a club meeting and challenges someone else to a sending contest.
Bunners
Despite the elimination of being able to send and receive Morse code to obtain a license, several magazines still have an almost monthly article about how to build a key to send code with.
Then I stumbled across this;
http://gizmodo.com/378314/a-fleshli.....-by-fucking-it
It's really just a pressure transducer, you could set a threshold to decide "key on, key off" and, well, send code with it.
Telegraphy has some short hand phrases called Q-Signals, QRS for example means "Please send slower" and one of the "joke" ones is QLF for "Please send with your left foot instead."
So of course in this case you'd have QFF and QFS for faster and slower respectively.
And I can only imagine the hilarity when someone shows up with it at a club meeting and challenges someone else to a sending contest.
Bunners
FA+

Bunners
'Course, looking today I'd be inactive in the hobby since I lack space, not to mention the complex wouldn't allow an antenna.
V.
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Bunners
Don't bother knocking on the radio shack door. I'm transmitting.
O.o
Yes, got a WB∅ number.
"Quiet numbskull, I'm broadcasting."
Aren't you glad you read this?
Bunners