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Jun 16, 2013 14:55:31   #
phil7782 Loc: Rancho Cucamonga, CA
 
Reminds me of the joke about the Bananas and the Monkeys:

Bananas and Monkeys (That's the Way We've Always Done It)


Start with a cage containing five monkeys.

Inside the cage, hang a banana on a string and place a set of stairs under it. Before long, a monkey will go to the stairs and start to climb towards the banana. As soon as he touches the stairs, spray all of the other monkeys with cold water.

After a while, another monkey makes an attempt with the same result - all the other monkeys are sprayed with cold water. Pretty soon, when another monkey tries to climb the stairs, the other monkeys will try to prevent it.

Now, put away the cold water. Remove one monkey from the cage and replace it with a new one. The new monkey sees the banana and wants to climb the stairs. To his surprise and horror, all of the other monkeys attack him.

After another attempt and attack, he knows that if he tries to climb the stairs, he will be assaulted.

Next, remove another of the original five monkeys and replace it with a new one. The newcomer goes to the stairs and is attacked. The previous newcomer takes part in the punishment with enthusiasm! Likewise, replace a third original monkey with a new one, then a fourth, then the fifth. Every time the newest monkey takes to the stairs, he is attacked.

Most of the monkeys that are beating him have no idea why they were not permitted to climb the stairs or why they are participating in the beating of the newest monkey.

After replacing all the original monkeys, none of the remaining monkeys have ever been sprayed with cold water. Nevertheless, no monkey ever again approaches the stairs to try for the banana. Why not? Because as far as they know that's the way it's always been done round here.

And that, my friends, is how company (military) policies are made.

Phil ;-)

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Jun 16, 2013 17:20:34   #
TucsonCoyote Loc: Tucson AZ
 
phil7782 wrote:
Reminds me of the joke about the Bananas and the Monkeys:

Bananas and Monkeys (That's the Way We've Always Done It)


Start with a cage containing five monkeys.

Inside the cage, hang a banana on a string and place a set of stairs under it. Before long, a monkey will go to the stairs and start to climb towards the banana. As soon as he touches the stairs, spray all of the other monkeys with cold water.

After a while, another monkey makes an attempt with the same result - all the other monkeys are sprayed with cold water. Pretty soon, when another monkey tries to climb the stairs, the other monkeys will try to prevent it.

Now, put away the cold water. Remove one monkey from the cage and replace it with a new one. The new monkey sees the banana and wants to climb the stairs. To his surprise and horror, all of the other monkeys attack him.

After another attempt and attack, he knows that if he tries to climb the stairs, he will be assaulted.

Next, remove another of the original five monkeys and replace it with a new one. The newcomer goes to the stairs and is attacked. The previous newcomer takes part in the punishment with enthusiasm! Likewise, replace a third original monkey with a new one, then a fourth, then the fifth. Every time the newest monkey takes to the stairs, he is attacked.

Most of the monkeys that are beating him have no idea why they were not permitted to climb the stairs or why they are participating in the beating of the newest monkey.

After replacing all the original monkeys, none of the remaining monkeys have ever been sprayed with cold water. Nevertheless, no monkey ever again approaches the stairs to try for the banana. Why not? Because as far as they know that's the way it's always been done round here.

And that, my friends, is how company (military) policies are made.

Phil ;-)
Reminds me of the joke about the Bananas and the M... (show quote)

Anybody who delves in this kind of experiment with animals and or humans deserves to be locked up or shot ....let God sort them out !

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Jun 18, 2013 18:56:33   #
phil7782 Loc: Rancho Cucamonga, CA
 
Just heard on the news that the very last TELEGRAM will be sent this week IN INDIA since that technology, once the fastest means to send a message, has been far surpassed by newer technology...

Phil

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Jun 19, 2013 12:47:44   #
tinosa Loc: Grand Rapids Michigan
 
Way back in the day at radio school in San Diego, we sat at typewriters with earphones on our head for 6 hours a day.
This went on for 6 weeks.
While on watch patrolling the barracks in the middle of the night,
you would hear many of the troops mumbling"ditty dah dit, dah di dah" etc in their sleep.
The code was emblazoned in our soul.
After returning to civilian life, I would sit on the beach in New Hampshire and communicate with passing ships using a flashlight.

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Jul 27, 2014 15:50:55   #
kb6pju
 
It would be an even better chart for learning Morse Code if it was totally correct,which it DEFINATELY IS NOT .
As a matter of fact, that "code chart" has caused massive damage among the Ham radio community,specifically this instance of damage.

http://www.eham.net/ehamforum/smf/index.php/topic,98037.0.html

I am the originator of this forum message on eHam .com, and I can tell you truthfully, the Ham involved is STILL HAVING DIFFICULTY with the letter "P" in our weekly code practice sessions. Please either understand the code, or have someone who actually DOES, do your final proofreading before you publish such information to the web for others to fail because of its content.

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Jul 27, 2014 15:53:25   #
kb6pju
 
re:code chart
It would be an even better chart for learning Morse Code if it was totally correct,which it DEFINATELY IS NOT .
As a matter of fact, that "code chart" has caused massive damage among the Ham radio community,specifically this instance of damage.

http://www.eham.net/ehamforum/smf/index.php/topic,98037.0.html

I am the originator of this forum message on eHam .com, and I can tell you truthfully, the Ham involved is STILL HAVING DIFFICULTY with the letter "P" in our weekly code practice sessions. Please either understand the code, or have someone who actually DOES, do your final proofreading before you publish such information to the web for others to fail because of its content.

kb6pju

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Jul 27, 2014 16:01:57   #
jenny Loc: in hiding:)
 
Still haven't found anyone who speaks the original Morse code so famous in Samuel F.B. Morse's original msg. and which was the Morse used by railroads and Western Union.
Is our language dead??

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Jul 27, 2014 21:21:38   #
twowindsbear
 
JAW wrote:
Now you have perked my interest - can you expand on this more - what is the difference?


A quick google search should produce a comparison chart showing the actual differences of the elements that make up the letters, etc., of the 2 communication systems.

Another huge difference between 'railroad' Morse Code & the International Morse Code is that International is sent as - quite simplified - a series of 'beeps,' varying in the combination or short & long sounds & spaces between them, as has been discussed. 'Railroad' Morse is a series of 'clicks' that are reproduced by a 'sounder' at the receiving station. The letters, numbers, punctuation, etc., are made by varying the timing and spacing of these 'clicks.' This also makes it rather complicated to transfer from one to the other.

There are glaring errors in TV and movie programs that freely interchange the International code for the Continental - 'railroad' code. The most recent that comes to my mind is in the first episode of PBS' Downton Abbey, when the news of the Titanic was sent over wire and the 'sound effects' was the 'beeps' of International code rather than the 'clicks' of the land telegraph system.

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Jul 28, 2014 08:50:00   #
Scoutman Loc: Orlando, FL
 
Hal81 wrote:
Never seen that before. Had to learn the code when I first went in the navy. But that was long long time ago. I got out in 54. One I always rembered was the dit dit dit dah dah dah dit dit dit.The national distress signal SOS.


A good chart for refreshing ones memory of Morse. Not that its used anywhere anymore.

I was a Morse Intercept Operator in the Army Security Agency.

We used a lot of Morse starting with the "F" word for friendly chatting. :) "F___ The Army," a favorite among enlisted men. No disloyalty to mother country intended.

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Jul 28, 2014 08:52:57   #
Scoutman Loc: Orlando, FL
 
Hal81 wrote:
Never seen that before. Had to learn the code when I first went in the navy. But that was long long time ago. I got out in 54. One I always rembered was the dit dit dit dah dah dah dit dit dit.The national distress signal SOS.


A good chart for refreshing ones memory of Morse. Not that its used anywhere anymore.

I was a Morse Intercept Operator in the Army Security Agency.

We used a lot of Morse starting with the "F" word for friendly chatting. :) "F___ The Army," a favorite among enlisted men. No disloyalty to mother country intended.

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Jun 20, 2022 11:59:50   #
joseph123 Loc: Malaysia
 
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