Yes Mr Clarkson your quite right, the internet will tell us:
This weeks top gear morse code from the stig was:
TOOMANYGEARS – presumably a reference to the 8 in the car
ILIKEMRSULU – Im sorry to say Id heard of Mr Sulu but am not sufficiently up on my sci-fi characters, hence a little googleing – hes the Japanese looking one in startrek (I think thats the one with “Power conduits” and “war speed”).
Tags: morse, morse code, the stig, top gear
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December 1, 2008 at 2:35 am |
Right. Sounds like it’s time to start your education. We’ll start with a Star Trek marathon.
December 1, 2008 at 10:44 am |
Isn’t Mr Sulu one of the “I’m a Celeb blah de blah de blah” people this year?
December 1, 2008 at 10:58 am |
Yes good spot, according to the oracle* George Takei [Who played Sulu] is indeed in Im a celebrity ive run out of money this year ( season 8 )
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27m_a_Celebrity…_Get_Me_out_of_Here!_(Series_8_UK)#George_Takei
December 1, 2008 at 11:44 am |
I wonder how fast exactly ‘war speed’ would be? I’m thinking it’s probably slower than ‘warp speed’ but inevitably faster than ‘ARP speed’.
December 1, 2008 at 12:45 pm |
Incidently, the actor who plays Mr. Sulu is gay.
Perhaps The Stig is getting a little light in the sneakers…?
December 1, 2008 at 5:50 pm |
take it easy alex
December 1, 2008 at 9:50 pm |
So which site was the decoded morse blagged from?
There aren’t too many people can receive at that speed – certainly not most amateur radio hams.
December 1, 2008 at 11:47 pm |
Ah ye of little faith! I will admit one of the e5 ones took a couple of listens because the background noise is quite intrusive at the start. Interestingly the other one was a much clearer copy, wonder if this was intentional. What ever reasoning you have that I “blagged” it from someone else surely applies to that someone else. Someone had to do it first. Im certainly not going to stick my neck out on someones work. Also you might wanna take a look at the time of posting.
Why do all achievements have to be belittled, this is why no-one tries any more.
December 2, 2008 at 8:05 am |
No need to get all sensitive!
I did look at the time of posting and that was my reason for asking, since it had already been decoded and posted elsewhere before that.
Seriously, what is your background morse wise. If you can cope with that speed & interference at the start you, like me, must have had professional training.
Forgive me my cynicism, there are so many people claiming others work these days for the sake of their own egos, it’s getting sad.
Cheers.
December 2, 2008 at 5:55 pm |
Sorry I guess I was a little sharp,
My interest in Morse is primarily through amateur radio. My interest in radio is primarily technical not social. I started learning Morse with my novice license (2E1HNN) although it was not compulsory for the type I was going for. Since then I transmit rarely but listen quite a lot (Particularly evenings when I was at university – Elecraft K2). It seems that most of the amateur conversations these days are total drivel, whereas at least Morse contacts seem to be a bit more exotic (longer range) and have more worthy content.
Your quite right, the amount of internet plagiarism is quite horrific, I was assuming I would be an early post but had to watch on iplayer later in the evening. At the end of the day, I cant prove it was my work and im not here to have a fight about it. People can make of it what they want. Plus its only a bit of Morse in a TV show.
I guess it would be nice to recommend Ray Goff’s Koch Morse trainer(to others): http://www.g4fon.net/ Since this is most useful (I listened a lot in the car). The only shame is that is windows only. He once saw me using Linux and didn’t seem very taken by it, hence I have never asked about porting it to Linux – a shame. He is a great guy tho and had a lot to do with my enthusiasm for morse (Even if he doesn’t know it 🙂 ).
I’m intrigued as to your professional training, ex-military?
Regards
Tom
December 2, 2008 at 6:54 pm |
i bet xela is sam 🙂 Tom I was assuming you’d slowed it down and worked it out, i’m dead impressed you’ve actually got morse code down. Do you ever hear messages in squeaking suspensions or loose connections? Squeaky squeak squeeeek squeeeeek squeeky squeeeeek etc. I’m sure your volvos would have lots to squeak about, for instance…
December 2, 2008 at 7:23 pm |
-. — – / — .. .-.. .. – .- .-. -.– / -… ..- – / — . .-. -.-. …. .- -. – / -. .- …- -.– /.-. .- -.. .. — / — ..-. ..-. .. -.-. . .-. / – .-. .- .. -. . -.. / .- – / … .–. . . -.. … / ..- .–. / – — / ….- —– / .– .–. — / -.-. …. . . .-. … / — .. -.-. -.-
December 2, 2008 at 7:29 pm |
Just noticed the formatting above hasn’t been brilliant!
2 & 3 adjacent dashes have merged with each other, so you’ll have a bit of work to do to decode it!
Have fun,
Mick
December 3, 2008 at 12:22 am |
– …. .. -. -.-/ — — .-. … . / -.. . -.-. .-.. .. -. ./ … …. .- — . / -.-. …. . . .-. … / – — —