Re: #622 - "Wave Hello!"
Posted: Wed May 06, 2020 7:00 pm
... I still have my Novice license (they don't grant those anymore) ...
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#622 - "Wave Hello!"
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Re: #622 - "Wave Hello!"
Posted: Wed May 06, 2020 8:44 pm
I'm surprised I still remember as much as I do from my Boy Scout days. I can still decode any Morse Code message that someone sends me, as long as it consists of only A, D, E, H, I, N, O, S and T. Here's a little trivia on Samuel F. B. Morse: He was an incredibly talented painter and he married his second wife in my hometown, Crossword-friendly Utica.
Re: #622 - "Wave Hello!"
Posted: Thu May 07, 2020 12:15 am
I can spell my name
Dash
Dash Dash Dash
Dash Dash
That's "TOM".
Dash
Dash Dash Dash
Dash Dash
That's "TOM".
Re: #622 - "Wave Hello!"
Posted: Thu May 07, 2020 11:43 am
Well then: •••• ••/ - •• • / •••• --- / ••• •• ••• - ••Al Sisti wrote: ↑Wed May 06, 2020 8:44 pm I'm surprised I still remember as much as I do from my Boy Scout days. I can still decode any Morse Code message that someone sends me, as long as it consists of only A, D, E, H, I, N, O, S and T. Here's a little trivia on Samuel F. B. Morse: He was an incredibly talented painter and he married his second wife in my hometown, Crossword-friendly Utica.
Utica - all I can remember about Utica is that they had a beer - Utica Club (which I may or may not have imbibed while not yet 21) and that it had the distinction of being the first beer brewed after prohibition ended, or so the story went.
Utica the high road and I'll takea the low road and I'll get to Schenectady before ya...
Re: #622 - "Wave Hello!"
Posted: Thu May 07, 2020 11:53 am
Yeah, I got that! And yes, that's true about Utica Club. Amazing, though, isn't it? The day prohibition ended, they happened to have beer ready to go? Hmmm...DrTom wrote: ↑Thu May 07, 2020 11:43 amWell then: •••• ••/ - •• • / •••• --- / ••• •• ••• - ••Al Sisti wrote: ↑Wed May 06, 2020 8:44 pm I'm surprised I still remember as much as I do from my Boy Scout days. I can still decode any Morse Code message that someone sends me, as long as it consists of only A, D, E, H, I, N, O, S and T. Here's a little trivia on Samuel F. B. Morse: He was an incredibly talented painter and he married his second wife in my hometown, Crossword-friendly Utica.
Utica - all I can remember about Utica is that they had a beer - Utica Club (which I may or may not have imbibed while not yet 21) and that it had the distinction of being the first beer brewed after prohibition ended, or so the story went.
Utica the high road and I'll takea the low road and I'll get to Schenectady before ya...
Re: #622 - "Wave Hello!"
Posted: Thu May 07, 2020 12:16 pm
Wow, talk about dumb luck or serendipity!Al Sisti wrote: ↑Thu May 07, 2020 11:53 amYeah, I got that! And yes, that's true about Utica Club. Amazing, though, isn't it? The day prohibition ended, they happened to have beer ready to go? Hmmm...DrTom wrote: ↑Thu May 07, 2020 11:43 amWell then: •••• ••/ - •• • / •••• --- / ••• •• ••• - ••Al Sisti wrote: ↑Wed May 06, 2020 8:44 pm I'm surprised I still remember as much as I do from my Boy Scout days. I can still decode any Morse Code message that someone sends me, as long as it consists of only A, D, E, H, I, N, O, S and T. Here's a little trivia on Samuel F. B. Morse: He was an incredibly talented painter and he married his second wife in my hometown, Crossword-friendly Utica.
Utica - all I can remember about Utica is that they had a beer - Utica Club (which I may or may not have imbibed while not yet 21) and that it had the distinction of being the first beer brewed after prohibition ended, or so the story went.
Utica the high road and I'll takea the low road and I'll get to Schenectady before ya...
Re: #622 - "Wave Hello!"
Posted: Fri May 08, 2020 3:19 pm
I think it's interesting that there are 900+ subscribers and "only" 682 solved this one. Maybe a lot of people just don't care about being on the leaderboard so they got it but didn't bother to submit? Or do people subscribe just for the grids and don't even bother with the metas?