A mystery.

[David Bridgen]

Read the lamp and Google for what it says.

[Doc Vernon]

My Morse is way out these days but at a try I get SQS0 but think incorrect as nothing comes up on Google except Senior Quality Safety Officer ???
Cheers

This is what I see

dit dit dit

dah dah dah dit dah


dit dit dit


dah dah dit dah

[j.sabourn]

Your 3 dits is S.. Dah dah dit dah is Q (or is it Y) Dah dah Dah dit Dah is not a number to my recollection. Anyhow that is a mite too fast for me on the lamp. More than 6 words minute. Would have to slow down to that speed for me. OK for someone used to sending on a keyboard. Cheers JS

[Keith Tindell]

I remember being on lookout on the North African coast, late 50s, troubles in Oran etc, and suddenly approached from astern, a warship, French, being bathed in a searchlight, and he was flashing morse at us, but no one on the bridge could read it. it was too fast, resulted in him circling us, and the skipper bellowing on the loudhaler, kt

[Ivan Cloherty]

I remember being on lookout on the North African coast, late 50s, troubles in Oran etc, and suddenly approached from astern, a warship, French, being bathed in a searchlight, and he was flashing morse at us, but no one on the bridge could read it. it was too fast, resulted in him circling us, and the skipper bellowing on the loudhaler, kt

The French warships were always impatient I was acting yeoman during Suez 56. The RN would always send slow, but the French wouldn't, one destroyer putting a shot across our bows because we couldn't understand them. Even Sparks couldn't read it, but as one said to me, send it as fast as you like on the key and I'll always get it, but reading the light is different

[Chris Allman]

I am awful at Morse but seem to see it as
SQAS - comes up on Google as Safety Quality and Assessment Systems.

Thank goodness there was VHF

[happy daze john in oz]

All I could see was flashing lights and not even had a drink yet today.

[gray_marian]

#7, John, David's avatar always hurts my eyes never mind this post, the wine doesn't help either

[David Bridgen]

Ok gentlemen, a bit later I will edit the file and slow it down a bit.

By the way, on my first trip as extra R.O. aboard the Nigaristan we put in to Malta with boiler trouble. There was a R.N. ship in the harbour at Valetta, forget her name. There was a R.N. signal station there too. The signalling speed between the shore and the ship was astonishingly high. I was told by a shipmate that a signalman would initiate an exchange by sending "y to Y", which I was told meant yeoman to yeoman, before exchanging traffic so that the initiator wouldn't be held back by a less experienced person.

[David Bridgen]

Here's a retimed one. It's 20% slower than the first.