Way off topic, but fun

[N3PSJ-2]

A new digital mode that can be sent and received without a computer.  You
just have to learn it.

http://www.ke3c.com/ToneWave.php

Ken (KC) Nicely  KE3C
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[k6dgw]

Only if you consider "patented in 1903" to be "new."  It was one of the
methods used to key an arc converter for CW.

73,

Fred K6DGW
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On 11/17/2012 6:31 AM, Ken Nicely wrote:
> A new digital mode that can be sent and received without a computer.  You
> just have to learn it.
>
> http://www.ke3c.com/ToneWave.php


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[vk2rq]

Why only two tones? If we use an 8-tones "multi-FSK", we can get more bandwidth. Here is an example of such a code (or in fact language) that is meant to be human-readable:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solresol

This is what inspired the alien musical language in the movie "Close Encounters of the Third Kind", together with the musical hand signals of John Curwen:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Curwen

Well, if we weren't off topic before, we certainly are now :-)

73, Matt VK2RQ

On 18/11/2012, at 5:30 AM, "Ron D'Eau Claire" <[hidden email]> wrote:

> This O.T.'s brain, used to hearing several signals at once in the rx
> passband, tries to decode each frequency simultaneously as a separate
> signal. So one signal is sending only dits and the other is sending only
> dashes!
>
> I'd not want to train my gray matter to consider two different requencies as
> one signal.
>
> It is slightly reminiscent of the "yooping" chirp some of our old one-tube
> transmitters produced though, Hi!
>
> 73, Ron AC7AC
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
>
> A new digital mode that can be sent and received without a computer.  You
> just have to learn it.
>
> http://www.ke3c.com/ToneWave.php
>
> Ken (KC) Nicely  KE3C
>
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[N3PSJ-2]

Well, I guess it is new to me.  I did not know it was used so long ago.

Why not 8 tones....because I have trouble decoding 2 in my head.

I hope everyone enjoyed the diversion.   I figured that this group, being a
good number of hard core CW operators, would appreciate it.   I initially
thought of two tones because I was thinking about how you could squeeze a
little more speed out of CW by using two dots with different tones instead
of a dot and a dash.  I admit it is hard to get your brain to recognize it,
but after you listen to it for a while it gets easier.

I will close the topic before Eric closes it for me.

--_ _ _ ---_ _

Ken KE3C
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