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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message: * HTML is OFF * Forum Code is ON Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by vk3pa[/i] [br]In Horace Martin's words : "In practice [i][b]good Morse senders emphasize their sending as a person does his words in talking[/b][/i]. The condition of the wire necessitates the emphasis of certain letters or portions of letters at times, the operator relying upon the "feel" of the wire at the instant that a letter or portion of a letter is to be formed and also on the ability of the receiver. [blue][i][b]This emphasis is accomplished almost entirely by the lengthening or shortening the dashes and spaces, the speed of the dots remaining constant. It is an important feature of my present invention that this perfect control of the instrument and power to emphasize his sending is retained by the operator, [/b][/i][/blue]while at the same time any number of dots may be produced by a single nerve exertion. [red][i][b]As there are all classes of operators[/b][/i][/red], it has been found that better time can be made by sending in [i][b]one way to one operator and in another way to others[/b][/i], the different styles of sending not depending so much upon the variation of the speed of sending as a whole as upon variations of certain impulses in making dashes and also the ability to vary the speed of words. [red][i][b]These and kindred features have been the stronghold of the Morse key and the cause of the practical failure of all automatic transmitters heretofore devised[/b][/i][/red]." ( And those that were developed thereafter. [u][i][b]) including the home PC[/b][/i][/u] [/quote]   Check here to include your profile signature. Check here to subscribe to this topic.