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Published: 2016-10-07 22:27:01 +0000 UTC; Views: 1085; Favourites: 25; Downloads: 14
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Morse variety.Another scene from Monty's time in Hong Kong. I quite like the idea that she can send Morse, perhaps not particularly well, but she can (and it saved me a heap of back and forward radio talk). It seems like an appropriately out of date skill for her to have, one that would be useless were she anyone other than Monty Blacker.
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If she has a good 'fist' and can get out twenty words a minute, then she's doing fine. A ham operator myself.
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Well, it's Monty, so she tends to be at least reasonably competent at whatever she's turning her hand to today. That said, she's not sending morse day in-day out either so... I would guess she does okay.
I've got to admit the only radio I've ever used with regularity is the VHF on site, in the car when I've been travelling, or when I was in cadets. Is there still a decent sized ham community?
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Since I got my license back in early September, those who ran the class said that the community worldwide is on the increase. Did SSB when I was in Civil Air Patrol in high school, had a new site commander on my microwave site in Germany back in the early 70's who was a MARS member, and used the PRC-77's when I was in the National Guard. If this confuses you, then just ignore it.
For now I'm just wanting a small hand-held unit for my work as a volunteer storm spotter for my county's Emergency Management service. When it's tornado season here in Kansas, I want something to backup the radio that I was issued in case it craps out.
Want to learn Morse Code, but can't find anyone in the area that can teach the class. And I don't want to try and learn it on my own.
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I will admit I had to google a lot of that...
Does the issue radio have a batter backup or something? If not, I guess there's always the old pedal set.
Morse would be great to learn, but I would well believe it becoming more and more difficult to find people who actually operate it any more.
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The radio I want to get has a rechargeable battery in it, and comes with a charger. And I learned that there are a least two different styles of learning cod. Now I came across a digital means of sending Morse code.
There's an electronic firm that bypasses using a key and has programmed a key board to send the correct 'dit-dah' for each letter, number and punctuation character just by pressing the correct key and its sent through the radio.
And there are computer programs where if you type out your message on a computer, then it will send the message in code. And when you receive a message in code, it's translated into clear text and show ups on the monitor.
Ain't technology grand!
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It is indeed grand. Though, to be honest, I tend to view morse code as the sort of thing you learn as a just in case for when everything else is broken... which is to say, for my money, needing a computer to do it kind of defeats the purpose. That said, I guess it could be a good way to learn. Of course, I also don't know how different radio procedure is between ham and morse. I know when I was writing the bits of story where Monty as sending morse it was a bit of a learning curve.
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Morse was still used much longer for maritime usage than anyone else. All you need is the carrier wave within the specified frequency to break in either short or long spaces for the dots and dashes, respectively. And nothing special in equipment and power requirement. Some hams in the states still use it as it is low-powered and doesn't need expensive transceiver gear. The digital side is far more than I'm willing to get into right now.
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This is stunning! Everything works, from the lighting scheme, to the textures and the composition.
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Funny thing about the lighting: that almost wound up being a disaster. I originally rendered the whole thing with that lamp off (basic thinking: she's not supposed to be there, so why would she have turned the lamp on?), intending the at the light sources should be the portal and the radio... which wound up making the lighting across Monty entirely wrong. At the last moment, and mostly because I'm lazy and didn't want to start again, I decided to go check the story to see if it had been on or off. Turns out I had written it as on when she arrived so... winning. Turning the lamp on was a whole lot easier than re-doing the rendering on Monty.
Cheers mate.
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Fair enough otherwise great job especially the amount of details and the background.
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holy crap man. the detail and texture you put into everything boggles the mind. What a treat for the eyes!
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Thanks mate, glad you like it.
Textures are, fortunately, relatively easy as it's mostly a matter of eyeballing and remembering to keep things a bit choppy. On the detail front, well... let's just say, were I do do this again, that map on the wall may get missed. 
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