Thought folks here might like this documentary from BBC Radio 4 today.
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Ian
I loved the comment from one of the team leaders. "Morse is easy to learn - you can learn it in two weeks ". I would imagine comments from older learners may differ. 
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I had this on in the background earlier but think I may have to listen again as I may have misheard the characters/min speed of the new world record. (1000?)
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Well, it’s easier than RTTY or FT8 to decode by ear.
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I DuckDuckWent and found Highspeed telegraphy - HST News (Put your nineties website glasses on before visiting this site.) deep within which I found a mention of “a speed of 1126 letters per Minute (Paris speed)”. That particular record is for decoding callsigns emitted by RufzXP. Other records are available…
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Nice for the stats, but who are you going to communicate with at that speed 
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Deep Blue?
Johnny 5?
Ken Barlow?
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I’m not sure how anyone would consider that menu layout sensible 
But the actual pages are reasonable.
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I probably need this kind of warning on my site https://tomread.co.uk
I’m plundering on with it with the idea that, eventually, it may come back into fashion.
Anyway, thanks for the link. I caught part of this when driving to my gig yesterday and was intrigued. I can now listen to the full item.
And two weeks? Yeah I reckon so. Ten days at eight hours a day could get you to a basic level of being able to use CW.
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Here, Tom, Microsoft Frontpage is on the phone for you. Says it wants its website back.
No worries, it’s a good listen. Particularly the piece about the young girl who uses breathing with Morse code to communicate.
It inadvertently reminded me of the use of blinking Morse too. A notorious case in particular where a man blinked the word torture on television and was subsequently rescued.
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No. MS Frontpage is the future. Well, my future (until my current PC packs up).
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Oh, yours doesn’t have anything like the mix of (almost) pure primary and secondary colours applied in crazy ways, as was very much a Geocities fad once upon a time… 
Maybe other Morse-crazy musical-prodigy ten-year-olds, I guess (though that was a receive-only part of the competition)… At that speed a whole callsign’s over in less than a quarter of a second, in which time I’d not have got as far as thinking “hey, is that some Morse I hear?” (or more likely dismissed the sound as a burst of static).
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Geocities, AOL, Altavista, Myspace etc … whatever happened to all those staples of the internet a generation ago? Will we be wondering what happened to Google, Outlook, YouTube, Instagram etc in another generation? So long as SOTAwatch and the Database survives, that’s all that matters!
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Dunno. Ask Jeeves. 
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You forgot Archie 
and Gopher. 
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