N1JI - Concord, NH

CW Sightings

A "CW Sighting" is when CW/Morse Code is encountered in an unexpected place (At a restaurant, in the hospital, etc.).

A Computer Game that Requires a Good Fist

After my experience at Chuck E. Cheese (below) I went home and Googled "Arcade Game Morse Code." I didn't come up with much, but I did find the little game below. You take the role of an army soldier who's mission is to kill Hitler. In order to make any moves (Attack, search, fall back, etc.) you have to send the first letter of the command in CW using the space bar. The game requires a good fist and it's really pretty fun if you like Morse Code. I spent about forty minutes playing it, but I never survived long enough to complete the mission. Maybe you'll have better luck!

Super Morse Code RPG

CW at Chuck E. Cheese

I took my family to Chuck E. Cheese in Manchester, NH, on April 24, 2015. As we were eating dinner I could hear some CW in the background. Underneath the QRN (noise) of all the video games and kids, I clearly heard the word RAT a few times. After we finished eating I looked around and found this arcade game (Click on the picture for a full-sized image):

I put some tokens in and we played the game. It's a WWII submarine game where your goal is to sink ships using torpedoes. At the beginning and end of each round the game would send a message in CW. It was all real words, but they didn't make much sense. I copied OFFSHORE OFFSHORE WATERS FATE a couple of times. Sometimes it would just send OFFSHORE without any other words.

An I.V. Pump that Sends Morse Code

In 2001 I was in the hospital for several days after donating a kidney to my brother. The I.V. pump I was hooked up to would occasionally start beeping until a nurse came in to look at it. I was a little out of it after the surgery, but I realized that the beeps were morse code when a nurse said "Oh, the battery's low" after the pump had been sending the letter B over and over again. It sent the letter S when the I.V. drip had stopped for some reason and there were other letters too, but I can't remember them now. In all, there were four or five different CW alerts that the pump sent at various times. The nurses were fascinated that I was able to tell them what the problem was before they looked at the machine!