Geocache Information:
The posted coordinates is not where the cache is located. Navigating to the posted coordinates will bring you to the middle of an intersection. Please solve the puzzle to retrieve the final location for the physical container.
History of Morse Code:
Morse code was invented by an American called Samuel Finley Breese Morse, (1791-1872). efore the invention of the telegraph, most messages that had to be sent over long distances were carried by messengers who memorized them or carried them in writing. These messages could be delivered no faster than the fastest horse. Messages could also be sent visually, using flags and later, mechanical systems called semaphore telegraphs, but these systems required the receiver to be close enough to see the sender, and could not be used at night.
The telegraph allowed messages to be sent very fast over long distances using electricity. The first commercial telegraph was developed by William Forthergill Cooke and Charles Wheatstone in 1837. They developed a device which could send messages using electrical signals to line up compass needles on a grid containing letters of the alphabet. Then, in 1838, Samuel Morse and his assistant, Alfred Vail, demonstrated an even more successful telegraph device which sent messages using a special code - Morse code.
Telegraph messages were sent by tapping out the code for each letter in the form of long and short signals. Short signals are referred to as dits (represented as dots). Long signals are referred to as dahs (represented as dashes). The code was converted into electrical impulses and sent over telegraph wires. A telegraph receiver on the other end of the wire converted the impulses back into to dots and dashes, and decoded the message.
In 1844, Morse demonstrated the telegraph to the United States Congress using a now famous message "What hath God wrought"..
Dits and Dahs
Made up of short and long tones, Morse code is still in use today. The short bursts are "dits" and the long ones are "dahs.
In the international standard, a "dash" is three times longer than a "dot." On paper, "-" is the symbol for a dash while every "." represents a dot. "E" is a simple letter and shortest code; it consists of just one "." Other characters are a bit more intricate. For example, "-.-." means "C."
If you're dealing with a letter that features multiple dots and/or dashes, there should be a pause equivalent to the length of one dot in between those components. The pauses that separate entire letters are longer, equal to three dots. You should divide individual words by even longer pauses measuring seven dots long.
The Puzzle
Simple enough. Use morse code to determine the missing parts of the coordinates.
FINAL Cache location is:
39.6D77B91
-76.BE6C1EA
A = ..-. .. ...-.
B = - .-- ---
C = . .. --. .... -
D = ..-. --- ..- .-.
E = --.. . .-. ---
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