Morse Code Enters The 21st Century

N8TWJ writes "The International Telecommunications Union has decided to bring Morse Code into the 21st century by adding the loved (or hated?) - at (@) symbol. Lets hope the spammers don't start sniffing 20 meters for da-dit-da-dit-dah-dit..." According to the article, Paul Rinaldo, chief technical officer for the American Radio Relay League, says: "It's a pretty big deal... there certainly hasn't been any change [in Morse Code characters] since before World War II."

Comments

the new symbol is moot at this point

[linux_author]

- thanks to folks like Bruce Perens, who advocate the elimination of CW testing for amateur radio operators (http://www.nocode.org), the new symbol won't become part of any official testing for amateur radio operators... - get ready for 11-meter operations on all the HF bands!

Re:Excellent! Good-bye computer and monitor!

[JohnFluxx]

"learn me" - wtf ?
Sounds like something bush would say.

And no, I'm not trolling - I'm come on.

Re:Reminds me of that other comms protocol ...

[torpor]

fuck off, did i say I wanted MIDI to die?

no. i didn't.

in fact, I want MIDI to live. And so it bloody well will!

if anything, it proves that we don't need more and more fucking protocols by people who think they're not worth anything unless they've invented something new everyone is using... we need people to implement better existing stuff.

that is all.

its amazing how knee-jerk /. is, people jumping to conclusions, sheesh ...