r/nextfuckinglevel
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u/Majorpain2006
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A Veteran communicating in Morse code at high speed
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u/AppropriateScience71 Jan 27 '23
I wonder how many people in the world could be able to understand what he was sending at that speed… Less than 20?
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u/cvbeiro Jan 27 '23
Never heard of amateur radio operators? Pretty sure there a more than 20…
Besides Morse code is still used for several things.
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u/Able2c Jan 27 '23
Speed keys would give this guy a run for his money.
A weak signal in morse code is easier to discern than voice communication.
There's several navies that still use morse code.22
u/Professional-Menu835 Jan 27 '23
Also suspicious this human is a HAM and not necessarily a veteran… “old guy who can do something young people can’t” often just gets turned into that word.
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u/brkh47 Jan 27 '23 edited Jan 27 '23
That’s literally the first meaning of the word.
Cambridge Dictionary: Veteran -a person who has had a lot of experience of a particular activity
e.g a 20-year veteran of the New York Police Department
The second meaning is someone who’s been in the armed forces during the war.
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u/Opposite_Rest_6807 Jan 27 '23
He's a vet. Was a conscript in the Greek special forces. He replied to another comment on here somewhere. He also said there's no way to understand what he said while using morse code at that speed.
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u/Schroedinbug Jan 27 '23
no way to understand what he said
Give me an few months and my choice of microcontroller and I'd bet I could get an average of a million characters a second via morse code sent and received
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u/Kreaturethenerfer Jan 28 '23
the guy in the video and the greek conscript guy are two different people.
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u/Meggles_Doodles Jan 28 '23
I know SOS in morse code and that's about it
I hope i never actually feel the need to use it, and I hope if i do, someone else would know what it meant lol
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u/anonbene2 Jan 27 '23
Thousands of us did when we were in the Army. That's exactly what our lessons looked like. Groups of 5 letters. I got up to 35 words per minute
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u/Questioning-Zyxxel Jan 28 '23
That's damn quick.
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u/anonbene2 Jan 28 '23
When you first hear it it sounds like one long beep and you think I could never do that but they start out slow and before you know it only 10 months later you're doing it no sweat.
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u/anonbene2 Jan 28 '23
When you first year it it sounds like one long beep and you think I could never do that but they start out slow and before you know it only 10 months later you're doing it no sweat.
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u/Mysterious-Universe Jan 27 '23
My grandma went with her girlfriends to eat at a restaurant. Military men came in and sat near them and started communicating with each other via morse code about my grandma and her friends. My grandma knew what they were saying and replied back informing them she and her friends were not interested.
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u/Glad-Pollution-3333 Jan 27 '23
I actually love this
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u/Glad-Pollution-3333 Jan 27 '23
This man was so important. No telling what his skills contributed. Communication is key people this is just one masterful form of it.
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u/purple718 Jan 27 '23
And then everyone clapped
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u/harlojones Jan 27 '23
He’s saying “aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa a a aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa a a a aaaaaa aa aaaaaaaaa”
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u/Old-Guard1962 Jan 27 '23
Grandpa calling air support
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u/mvnnyvevwofrb Jan 27 '23
I hear a Meshuggah song
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u/Sacredzebraskin Jan 27 '23
https://youtube.com/watch?v=U4GXNzom6ik&si=EnSIkaIECMiOmarE
First thing I thought of lol
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u/SudoPuff Jan 27 '23
I know nothing about this band but wow that is spot on. Is he sending the lyrics?
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u/ShiningJizzard Jan 27 '23
For when you want to listen to the same thing without having to loop the track, there’s Meshuggah.
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u/AdamAdmant Jan 27 '23
Quantum computer be like 'Was that a 1 or a 0 he going to fast!'
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u/Skrido Jan 27 '23
I'm gonna be that ass ruining the fun but quantum computers don't think in 0s and 1s.
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u/manoteee Jan 27 '23
but they do! they can process this easily. they can also process a superposition of both 1 and 0, so even more so!
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u/louloc Jan 27 '23
That’s a lost art form. That type of communication won wars and help tame the Wild West. Respect. 🫡
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u/bakekurkox Jan 27 '23
Help tame the wild west with masacres and mass killings okay lol
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Jan 27 '23
Were the Apache, Comanche, and Navajo to have free reign to raid as they please? Comanches along with the other listed groups raided northern Mexico to the point of depopulation. Part of the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo required that the United States contain these groups.
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u/PakiFanatic Jan 27 '23
Impressive but why is the machine unplugged?
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u/Milfoy Jan 27 '23
There's nobody left who could understand the message at that speed if it was sent.
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u/MoinRot Jan 28 '23
"How is Morse code used today? Many ham radio operators around the world still use Morse code." - Google
I think there are lots of people who could understand him just fine. It's just a communication technique you don't get to see that often but it still has its advantages over stuff like radio
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u/SteveX7 Jan 27 '23
Practice. Hobby. Something to occupy his time in retirement. Probably a great way to keep the mind sharp I bet.
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u/TheSillySimic Jan 27 '23
He's just writing "Help, I'm having a seizure" over and over
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u/funkie Jan 27 '23
just for comparison's sake: the wikipedia words-per-minute page states that
The upper limit for Morse operators attempting to write down Morse code received by ear using paper and pencil is roughly 20 wpm
whereas the operators receiving the input can decode at up to 70wpm
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u/HogfishMaximus Jan 27 '23
I still know Morse from my childhood Ham days but I never got past the 13 WPM threshold. It’s a hump that is really hard to get past. These guys are amazing. They can hold two completely separate conversations and not skip a beat. He may be chatting with you about the weather, and he will be giving signal reports via morse to the other guy.
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u/Splobadodge Jan 27 '23
Impressive!! We all needed this guy, and his comrades more than many appreciate these days. Look after his generation plz 👌
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u/Fit_Wolverine7706 Jan 27 '23
For all we know he was just randomly pressing that thing.
My ass doesn’t know shit about Morse code.
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u/ErenOnizuka Jan 27 '23
Can someone translate?
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u/Olasola424 Jan 27 '23
Click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click
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u/datareclassification Jan 27 '23
Man's calling like 50 artillery strikes on your ass for insulting his grandson be like:
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u/graveybrains Jan 27 '23
He's a telegraph wizard there has got to be a twist. The telegraph wizard’s got such a supple wriiiiiiist!
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u/whydid7eat9 Jan 27 '23
I like how he's leaning on his left hand like that half of his body is bored while his right hand is busily tapping out dots and dashes faster than most people type. I wonder how long you have to develop a skill like that for it to stay with you like this.
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u/ethanace Jan 27 '23
Plot twist, he actually just has Parkinson’s and is confused why he is sitting there
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u/Superb_Umpire7286 Jan 27 '23
Im always amazed by the proficiency a human can develop, only to become obsolete and often discredited and forgotten, as often as it happens.
This at one point was an essential rung on the ladder of technological development, along with many other technologies and tools now made ineffective in a modern context by our demand for faster and more convenient options.
I guess I wonder how long till I'm stuck in that same boat, given my position and utility in society. Only time can tell.
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u/mickeyprime1 Jan 27 '23
cant use fancy ass touch screen phone but can go longer than anyone else on this piece from 50's.
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u/roninPT Jan 27 '23
That's all right. My Morse is so rusty, I could be sending him dimensions on Playmate of the Month.
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u/phuzzy1deep Jan 27 '23
Gramps sent some fucked up shit over the wire in his day. “Dem Nahsees are a comin!”
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u/-maffu- Jan 27 '23
I'm no Morse Code expert, but I think he's saying "help me, I'm having a seizure!"
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u/DarkMatterSoup Jan 27 '23
All that precise tapping then he’s like “ahhhh shit I forgot to plug the damn thing in.”
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u/B-Glasses Jan 27 '23
There’s gotta be a max speed for this right? Since it’s dots and dashes and you’d need a longer press for the dashes
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u/I_Luv_Dubstep Jan 27 '23
He’s been trying for years to reach you about you vehicles extended warranty
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u/Noastrala Jan 27 '23
Everybody gangsta until grandpa starts requesting airstrikes on his neighbour
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u/FeDude55 Jan 27 '23
I would imagine that if you could understood Morse code, a tap dancer would drive you crazy.—MH
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u/Grimholtt Jan 27 '23
When I was in service, they were called ditty bops. And I never met one that wasn't hyper as shit. Like a chihuahua on speed.
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u/manwhorunlikebear Jan 27 '23
I wonder if I will be trying out a qwerty-keyboard in 50 years and be like; "back in my young days I used to type on those keyboards for many hours every day, let me see if my fingers can still do it..."
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u/GrenadeZellweger Jan 27 '23
Dude on the other end