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Hello, my name is Thad. I am not a radio enthusiast, but I was wondering if I could get some help on a project I am working on. I'm not sure if this is in the right section, so please let me know if its not.


I am having trouble deciphering morse code that is located on the side of this card. I have tried it myself but am not sure if I am correct.


There is a front and a back to this card. Here is the back.


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Lets take a look at the right side of the card first.

When I decipher it from top to bottom I get the word "S E U O A"
When I decipher it from bottom to top I get the word " N O D E S"

My first question is: which way is right? How do you tell?


Now lets look at the left side of the card:

I cannot decipher the left side of the card at all. What does it say and which way is correct and why?


Here is the front of the card. Notice the morse code along the border.
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Starting from the top right and moving left I get

"Ciphera"

That's just the top. I cannot finish the rest as the bottom left corner of the code trips me up.

Any idea???


I want to say thanks in advance to anyone who can help me out with this.



Thad
 

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You've got the first card right, but I couldn't really tell you which way is correct. I'm not a cryptographer. The left side's first character (.-.-.-.) from bottom to top does not exist, but the second two are O and G.

As for the second card on the top, it reads (from left to right) "Ciphers", not Ciphera. The left reads "Codes" from bottom to top, and the bottom is really hard to read because the dots and dashes are not properly spaced, but extracting a few easy characters from it, I can only imagine that it says "Cryptographs."
 
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You've got the first card right, but I couldn't really tell you which way is correct. I'm not a cryptographer.

As for the second card on the top, it reads (from left to right) "Ciphers", not Ciphera. The left reads "Codes", and the bottom is really hard to read because the dots and dashes are not properly spaced, but extracting a few easy characters from it, I can only imagine that it says "Cryptographs."

Any idea what the left side of the card says??? (Top picture)
 

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As Agentcopp1 stated, .-.-. does not exist. BUT on the second card image, if they made a mistake and was meaning for it to be the letter C which is -.-., then if you read it from bottom to top, it spells "CODES"
 
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Any idea what the left side of the card says??? (Top picture)

Yeah, I edited my post because I forgot that part haha. Basically, the dots and dashes make no sense, and the first character doesn't even exist.
 

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".-.-." Is punctuation... Specifically, a period (.)
Also the op signal "AR" for period... Sometimes used as "over".
 

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".-.-." Is punctuation... Specifically, a period (.)
Also the op signal "AR" for period... Sometimes used as "over".

That's not true. The card says ".-.-.-." which isn't anything. A period is ".-.-.-". I think that the designers of the card made a mistake because they put characters in there that don't even exist.
 
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