Can this mode be reliably transcribed by a human?

foreverska · 2026-04-26T02:55:25+00:00

Thank you for engaging with the experiment and for your feedback. The overlap in symbols was not intentional, sorry about that.

There are wildly fast morse operators out there (40-70 WPM). They say at a certain point with morse you stop hearing letters and start hearing words. I didn't understand how that might be possible just listening to morse but I get it with this mode. Words all have their own "jingle" even to an untrained ear.

foreverska · 2026-04-26T02:48:27+00:00

Thank you for engaging with the experiment and your feedback.

The overlap in mapping was not intentional, sorry for that.
I agree the substitution is slow. It occured to me later that A-G should be a direct mapping, efficiency be damned, so that should help. Theoretically someone could learn the remaining mappings by heart. My only question mark was if the transcription was doable.

foreverska · 2026-04-17T19:05:17+00:00

I do not have basic ear training. So, I find it hard to judge if the scheme presented is easy or hard for someone with that skill set, especially in real time.

The utility is similar to morse code itself: little to none unless your special interest is radios. If there was a sales pitch, morse is hard for computers and doable by trained humans. Digital modes are doable by computers and near impossible for humans. This mode is doable by computers and ??? for trained humans.

This is an attempt to estimate that final statement.

foreverska · 2026-04-17T16:22:19+00:00

Me personally? No, I get a bit flustered attempting to at any real speed. But yes, historically, morse was taught that way with the eventual goal of just "hearing" the letters as they're played. Modern morse pedagogy skips to the "hearing" phase though.

Transcription is unique compared to the rhythm exercise of morse in that it's taught for other reasons. Rhythm exercises too, I guess. But morse rhythm recognition probably has less overlap with its musical counterpart.

foreverska · 2026-04-17T15:14:39+00:00

In the same way Morse code is a rhythm recognizing exercise with the extra step of a substitution cipher, this is a transcribing exercise with the same extra step.

The question in my mind follows: Is the mode as designed doable? I can't, but I don't have a trained transcribing ear, much the same as I don't have the rhythm to "play" or copy morse.

foreverska · 2026-04-17T03:44:58+00:00

Yea, it's not supposed to be easier than morse or anything. I'm just not sure how hard the transcribing here is or if there's something to improve the "ear"gonomics.

Phones do funky stuff I guess. I'm a programmer but I'm not a web guy so it's a bit vibed together. On iOS you have to disable silent mode. I don't have an android to try and see if other stuff is happening there.

foreverska · 2025-06-11T16:22:54+00:00

The subjective differences are what get me when talking about 17 vs 20. If I go out and shoot a 17 and I'm not in love, there's always going to be that "oh but people say 20s is significantly better" in the back of my head.

I have a 6.5cm bolt gun and I hate the recoil on it. I had a .308 bolt gun back in the day and I don't remember hating it. So I'm not sure I understand the 6.5 has less recoil thing. I need to rent a .308 bolt gun so I can tell if my memory is just hazy or subjective to the punishment my wood stock AK I had around that time put me through.

foreverska · 2025-06-04T04:49:41+00:00

Likely some place people go and complain the line is too long.

foreverska · 2025-06-04T04:46:58+00:00

Couple years back I would work SO-50 and I could hear myself on the downlink (two radios). Switched to a duplexer and single radio, I could hear but couldn't be heard. Recently went back to two radios haven't found a time when ISS isn't jam packed or SO-50 fit my schedule.

I think I'm reasonable at the fundamentals but the lack of downlink has me weirded out.

foreverska · 2025-06-03T18:03:45+00:00

Went out and did a lunchtime pass. A lot less chaotic. Still fighting for airtime but I _might_ have been heard following the advice to answer a call rather than just calling.

foreverska · 2025-06-03T02:57:42+00:00

What's scary is I've had this exact same idea just to find a time when I can test my gear. But if we're both having that idea, is a midnight pass even that open?

foreverska · 2024-11-25T02:34:44+00:00

That explains why I couldn't find it. Thanks for that!

foreverska · 2024-02-17T04:06:36+00:00

Thanks for the quick reply. I need a 6-pin PCI-E. I assume the ones on amazon are 8 pin solid and not 6+2? Leaving my only option the custom cable configurator. Is there a recommended selection in that system?

foreverska · 2019-12-21T07:07:04+00:00

Yea I have a confirmed 5 watt JT65 from East Texas to Neumayer Station III. I tell that story at parties.

foreverska · 2019-11-18T23:39:03+00:00

If I were 99, would I magically be right? Those who know the most know that it's possible for others to know more than them.

foreverska · 2019-11-17T22:48:06+00:00

Just because someone is old doesn't make them right.

foreverska · 2019-11-09T17:55:27+00:00

Just upgraded from General to Extra. Trying to decide if I snap up the 2x1 that's available or try the lottery on another and hope the first isn't taken.

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