Disappearing into the night without a whimper

[seagoon]

Dale....

I'm unsure as to what the first one might mean....could be two dots (diddi), two dashes (dum dum) and two dots (diddi), which would be IMI.

The second is AR.
Di-dah = A
Di-dah-dit = R.

[Coonskin]

As long as we're off topic and talking code...

Who can tell me about this one... "diddi-dum-dum-diddi"?

Or perhaps... "di-dah-di-dah-dit"?

Manfred Mann, "Doo-Wah-Ditty", 1964.

[seagoon]

Andre, it's actually "diddy-diddy", mate.

A great song....used in an equally good movie, "Stripes".

[geepster775]

The Contact Us form is working again and I received a message this morning about Blender and Open Rails.

One more item about the website, the weekly "Friday Builds" in the downloads section, where I usually went to get updated copies of the manual when they came out, are still back at X4334 with a Jan 11 2019 date. That hasn't updated since the cutover to Git.

[dmrick]

Part of my fun in the past was running around the jungles of Vietnam with a PRC-25 on my back.
MOS: RTO (Radio/Teletype operator. 4 months of learning morse code.

The "diddi-dum-dum-diddi"? is indeed • • — — • • or "IMI" It was written with an overscore above it meaning it was sent as one character. Saves a lot of keying. It means "Say again"

The "di-dah-di-dah-dit" is • — • — • or "AR" and it too was written with an overscore above it. More saving keying... It means, Roger Out.

Back in radio school (Ft Dix, NJ) us guys were always going around using these shortcuts when we talked to one another. You also had to learn a lot of Q and Z signals... QSA QRK... What is the strength of my signal?... What is the intelligibility of my signal?

I guess private ham guys use Q signals but I think the Z ones were primarily military.

[seagoon]

.....I guess private ham guys use Q signals but I think the Z ones were primarily military.

When I was an active "ham" (1976 - 1986) we did use some 'Q' shortcuts in CW but I've forgotten just about all of them now, except for 'CQ', the general call for a contact if a callsign was not included or a call to a specific station if the callsign was appended, such as 'CQ VH2VNV' (my call-sign).

Once I attained my license I didn't use CW very often - maybe a couple of times a day was all - so the speed of reading/sending dropped down somewhat.
Most of my international contacts were Japanese wanting to practise their ability to speak English.....so it was mic rather than key.

[Vazyuk]

Once during childhood I've tried to learn Morse codes, but then stopped and forgot everything.

As long as we're off topic and talking code...

Who can tell me about this one... "diddi-dum-dum-diddi"?

Or perhaps... "di-dah-di-dah-dit"?

In Russian practice trainings uses peculiar chants for Morse codes: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Азбука_Морзе For example, for Russian letter "Л" (or Latin "L") uses code · − · · and chant "лу-наа-ти-ки" (Loo-naa-tee-kee), i.e Russian word "Лунатики" ("lunatics").

About a hundred years ago, station signalmen transmitted messages about train movement by telegraph, how good is that today, I don't need to know Morse codes for my work!

Now i found intersting video:

Probably in this time I can try learn Morse codes again!

[seagoon]

Vladislav, you never cease to educate me!
Thanks for the links.