Originally created for Samuel F. B. Morse's electric telegraph in
the early 1840s, Morse code has been used extensively for radio
communication beginning in the 1890s and it's use continues even
into today's modern communication methods. The system was used as
the international standard of maritime communication until as late
as 1999.
Today Morse Code is used for identification of radio navigation
aids, long range short wave radio communication and is most popular
with amateur radio operators.
Morse code is best learned through repitition. When I began my
current career in aviation communications we were required to cross
train as Coast Guard radio operators and to copy and send at 25+
words per minute. I spent many hours sitting at a typewriter
listening to dits and dahs over headphones slowly acquiring the
skill. By the end of the course my classmates and I could converse
easily anywhere. I do not expect you to have to decode the
coordinates at anywhere near those speeds.
Click on the links below to watch a video and audio file at 5
words per minute. Listen carefully for the pauses between
characters.
5 WPM
If you are having trouble with links or files or just cannot decode
it, contact me and I can send you a text file.
Cache is located in a winter-friendlyish location. It's on the
ground and will become buried in snow but it shouldn't take to much
digging and the spot will be obivious.
I set the terrain level fairly high. The road the cache is located
alongside of is not maintained at any time. In winter snowshoes or
crosscountry skies are recommended. In spring, summer and fall the
road will be muddy and deeply rutted. It is probably not passable
at all when wet except if you have a mudbusting monster truck.
Good luck and .... .- .--. .--. -.-- .... ..- -. - .. -. --.
(happy hunting)
You can check your answers for this puzzle on
Geochecker.com.
