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I thought this was going to be a plugin that would allow a user to click in Morse code on a text input in order to "type" their text. I'm kind of disappointed that it's not, since I've been meaning to write a browser extension to enable Morse code input on all text fields after someone suggested it as an addition to Tapsure (http://www.chrisfinke.com/addons/tapsure/).

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You'd imagine someone would do this sooner or later. My skills are horribly rusty, but they might be worth brushing off. Lots of people did it for their ham licenses and it's certainly faster then t9, possibly qwerty-on-touchscreen. Especially with two-switch repeating ones (i.e. one button does dot dot dot dot.. one does dash dash dash... at a set speed).

Code is no longer a requirement for a HAM license. Got my license without doing a code test.

I would have gotten a General license back in the day instead of a Tech+ if I could have managed a few more WPM worth of Morse code. Then again, I was in a rush to study before the test (it was hard to find an exam in rural Iowa), so I barely managed the slowest Morse code test with the amount of time I had to study. I passed the written test for General just fine, though.

Me too. I learned it so I could listen to propagation beacons, since I started primarily on 10m. I still don't use it much with other humans, unfortunately.

I haven't started writing any code yet, but I'll get to it eventually here: https://github.com/cfinke/Telegraph.js if anyone is interested in following the project's progress.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/leet-key/

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