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About Vail
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Vail is a CW repeater, named after Alfred Vail, who may or may not have invented what's called "Morse code", but clearly had some role in it. Samuel Morse clearly played a critical role in promoting and popularizing it.
Vail is a Continuous Waveform (CW) repeater. You can send a signal on it, and anyone else connected will hear and/or see it.
It was named after Alfred Vail, who, along with Samuel Morse, created and popularized "Morse Code".
How To Get Started
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When you first open Vail, you are using the "straight key". You can press the button labeled "Key" to send a beep, and you will hear a tone.
When someone sends something back, you will hear a lower tone.
Shortcuts
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* On a computer keyboard, you can press the enter key.
* If you have a game controller, you can press A or B.
* If you have a MIDI keyboard, you can play C in any octave.
Just like a radio repeater, anybody can connect and start transmitting stuff, and this will broadcast it to everyone connected. Also like a radio repeater, there is no indication of whether there's anybody else out there listening.
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