NOTE: This cache is 1 of 16 associated with the Ol' Salty Dog's Maritime Mixer cache series.
Find your way to the physical cache container at the coordinates revealed by solving the puzzle below. In the physical cache container, attached to the log, you will find a "puzzle piece" that will get you one step closer to finding Ol' Salty Dog's Maritime Mixer.
This code is a method used in telecommunication to encode text characters as standardized sequences of two different signal durations, called dots and dashes, or dits and dahs. This code encodes the twenty-six English letters A through Z, some non-English letters, the Arabic numerals, and a small set of punctuation and procedural signals. Each code symbol is formed by a sequence of dots and dashes. The dot duration is the basic unit of time measurement in the code transmission. The duration of a dash is three times the duration of a dot. Each dot or dash within a character is followed by period of signal absence, called a space, equal to the dot duration. The letters of a word are separated by a space of duration equal to three dots, and the words are separated by a space equal to seven dots.
To increase the efficiency of encoding, this code was designed so that the length of each symbol is approximately inverse to the frequency of occurrence in text of the English language character that it represents. Thus, the most common letter in English, the letter "E", has the shortest code: a single dot. Because the code elements are specified by proportion rather than specific time durations, the code is usually transmitted at the highest rate that the receiver is capable of decoding. The code is transmitted by on-off keying of an information-carrying medium such as electric current, radio waves, visible light, or sound waves, forms perceptible to the human senses. The current or wave is present during the time period of the dot or dash and absent during the time between dots and dashes. Code signaling such as sound waves or visible light, can be directly interpreted by persons trained in the skill.
Utilize your sleuthing skills to decipher the message below and determine this puzzle cache's coordinates.
