Guest
Turning on any of my vintage shortwave radios always brings some CW or
Morse Code. In the 60s I learned the basic of Morse Code but I never
really learned all the dots and dashes. To me, it always seemed like a
tedious and complicated means of communication.
I know in the early days of radio, it served a purpose, but these days
it's pretty obsolete. I recently learned that getting a Ham License no
longer requires Morse Code. Honestly I wanted to get a ham license in
the 60s but never did because of the morse code requirement back then.
I also have heard that most of the morse code heard on shortwave radios
these days is NOT created by hand pressing a key, but rather done with
machines (I'm not sure how it's done).
Anyhow, I was wondering if there is any sort of software that will
decode morse code and turn it into plain text? I assume one would need
to input the radio signal into a computer, via microphone or using a
direct cord to input. Then software would decode it and print the text
on the screen.
Does such a thing exist?
One further thing. I have noticed that most CW heard on the air these
days is so fast that few people could manually decode it. I guess that
is all machine created code, which in my opinion, needs a machine to
decode it too.....
NOTE: Morse Code is not to be confused with Horse Code, as seen on the
Mr.Ed tv series, in which Mr Ed communicated using short and long
whinnies in series....
(Mr Ed was the greatest).
Morse Code. In the 60s I learned the basic of Morse Code but I never
really learned all the dots and dashes. To me, it always seemed like a
tedious and complicated means of communication.
I know in the early days of radio, it served a purpose, but these days
it's pretty obsolete. I recently learned that getting a Ham License no
longer requires Morse Code. Honestly I wanted to get a ham license in
the 60s but never did because of the morse code requirement back then.
I also have heard that most of the morse code heard on shortwave radios
these days is NOT created by hand pressing a key, but rather done with
machines (I'm not sure how it's done).
Anyhow, I was wondering if there is any sort of software that will
decode morse code and turn it into plain text? I assume one would need
to input the radio signal into a computer, via microphone or using a
direct cord to input. Then software would decode it and print the text
on the screen.
Does such a thing exist?
One further thing. I have noticed that most CW heard on the air these
days is so fast that few people could manually decode it. I guess that
is all machine created code, which in my opinion, needs a machine to
decode it too.....
NOTE: Morse Code is not to be confused with Horse Code, as seen on the
Mr.Ed tv series, in which Mr Ed communicated using short and long
whinnies in series....
(Mr Ed was the greatest).