Code can be useful...

[K7KBN]

I just remembered reading this quite a few years ago, and did a quick search with Google. It's a cute little ditty about how useful Morse Code can be, whether transmitted by radio, or used by a Heliographer.

The Heliograph (http://www.poetryloverspage.com/poets/kipling/code_of_morals.html)

[ai4ep]

http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif great...but I was expecting some audio of morse code to go with it...but.. it was ok just as it is

73

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[9V1VV]

That poem is quite a find. Thanks for the posting. Definitely not one of Kipling's more famous offerings, such as "Gunga Din", "Jungle Book" or "Kim". It was most probably written between 1890 and 1910 or so, when he was in India. So Kipling knew the code? And what a sense of humour too. Marvellous.
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[N8CPA]

I always liked Kipling's "The Betrothed:"

"...Open the old cigar-box—let me consider anew—
Old friends, and who is Maggie that I should abandon you?

A million surplus Maggies are willing to bear the yoke;
And a woman is only a woman, but a good Cigar is a Smoke.

Light me another Cuba—I hold to my first-sworn vows.
If Maggie will have no rival, I’ll have no Maggie for Spouse!"

[K7KBN]

9V1VV - thanks for the insight from a more British viewpoint. Ol' Rudyard must have really been a fascinating guy.

Did you/do you know Simo Hoikka? Can't remember his 9V1 call right now, but I met him and his family in Singapore in 1993. Had dinner with them: here's an AMERICAN in SINGAPORE, sitting down to dinner with a family from FINLAND, the meal having been prepared by their MALAYSIAN housekeeper...what exotic culinary treat awaits...?

Some very good, made-from-scratch LASAGNA! http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

N8CPA: Thanks for that! I knew Kipling wrote the quote about "A woman is only a woman...", but I didn't know the actual work it's from. Guess I'm going to have to buy a collection of Kipling's poetry.

[W3MIV]

Hey, I've got an idea!!: Let's get the FCC to mandate a HELIOGRAPHY test on licenses of Gen and Extra! Let's see here, maybe thirteen flashes per minute? OK?

[n0ov]

Very cool! (original post)

As for the test -- why not ask John Kerry where he stands http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

[K8ERV]

I did not know Kipling said a good cigar is a smoke. I thot it was Castro.

TOM K8ERV

Do not forget to write your anti-BPL letters,
encourage new amateur radio participation and generally be nice
to one another. That is all.