Morse
code fonts
Most of us
boy-scouts or radio enthusiasts had at one point in time some
experience of the morse code. My own Grand-Father was a ham radio
before last world war, and of course did quite some traffic on
the short waves length before it was even thought about cellular
phones. That's how I discovered Morse code, when still a kid,
in the mysterious environment of wireless communication contraptions,
at the same time others kept pet bull-frogs. From our remote
corner of France (St Leonard de Noblat, near Limoges), we waited
until midnight to contact America, and I stood shivering of excitation
and sense of epic behind my Grand Father shoulder while he was
talking to that mythical remote country over the ocean...
Every computer
user should be ever so thankful to all these pioneers, who created
the very first network of free electronic speech, much before
our current Internet. Before Cyberspace, was a warm, cheerful
and picturesque world of large aerials, ground poles and tickers,
which linked individuals around the world. And, no doubt, if
these radio-loonies (they where not yet computer freaks) had
not spent years painfully tuning their tubes, adjustable coils
and variable capacitors, much of modern satellite communication
might be much less efficient. SSB and other techniques where
invented by ham enthusiasts, even if nowadays engineers have
no idea it was the case.
So, when my
electronic friend Gary asked me over e-mail for a Morse Code
font, I thought already dozens of them where available across
the ham community. It does not seem to be the case. So, here
is my contribution to the communicating people of the wireless
world.
Mitch Bujard