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What else is Morse code used for? (self.Blind)
submitted by Nefilimul
I learned this and I really like it but it seems useless. What can a Morse code blind person do other than amateur radio?
vwlsmssng 6 points 2y ago
If you are ever held captive by a foreign power and displayed as a hostage on their TV station you can blink in Morse code to tell people what is really happening. Like American hero $1
> Denton is best known from this period of his life for the 1966 televised press conference in which he was forced to participate as an American POW by his North Vietnamese captors. He used the opportunity to send a distress message confirming for the first time to the U.S. Office of Naval Intelligence and Americans that American POWs were being tortured in North Vietnam. He repeatedly blinked his eyes in Morse code during the interview, spelling out "T-O-R-T-U-R-E".
It is also the kind of cool skill young Scouts like to learn so if there is a local troop interested in this you could offer to teach them.
> Denton is best known from this period of his life for the 1966 televised press conference in which he was forced to participate as an American POW by his North Vietnamese captors. He used the opportunity to send a distress message confirming for the first time to the U.S. Office of Naval Intelligence and Americans that American POWs were being tortured in North Vietnam. He repeatedly blinked his eyes in Morse code during the interview, spelling out "T-O-R-T-U-R-E".
It is also the kind of cool skill young Scouts like to learn so if there is a local troop interested in this you could offer to teach them.
Nefilimul [OP] 2 points 2y ago
Very cool! I don't know exactly what scouts are, but I think my help would be useless, because there are a lot of translators from Morse code in English and vice versa and a lot of sites where this code is displayed to be learned.
vwlsmssng 1 points 2y ago
> I don't know exactly what scouts are,
Scouts are a youth activity group with an emphasis on outdoor and practical activities. They are known as Boy Scouts of America in the USA (though they've recently changed names as girls can now join), or they are just known as Scouts in the UK where they were founded originally.
I'm not familiar with how they are run in the USA but in the UK we sometimes bring in outsider with skills that the young people enjoy learning. Interacting with different real adults is one of the good things that happen in Scouts for young people.
Scouts are a youth activity group with an emphasis on outdoor and practical activities. They are known as Boy Scouts of America in the USA (though they've recently changed names as girls can now join), or they are just known as Scouts in the UK where they were founded originally.
I'm not familiar with how they are run in the USA but in the UK we sometimes bring in outsider with skills that the young people enjoy learning. Interacting with different real adults is one of the good things that happen in Scouts for young people.
meeowth 3 points 2y ago
You can use it to coordinate a prison break without the guards noticing.
siriuslylupin6 1 points 2y ago
Really interesting not too much pragmatic stuff but yeah, stuff like this.
Altie-McAltface 1 points 2y ago
More amateur radio? I got to North Carolina from the Texas gulf coast on about 1 watt on CW with a pretty bad antenna.
JDMc3D 1 points 2y ago
You can use also Morse Code as an alternative input for a smartphone. For Android, there is a downloadable Morse 'keyboard' that can be used in place of the typical QWERTY keyboard. May be useful if one typically uses voice dictation and wants to be more discrete or of there is too much background noise.
Winnmark 1 points 2y ago
Geez, there really is an app for everything, huh?
ryan516 1 points 2y ago
On Apple Watch, I use it for Taptic Time
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