Barking up the wrong Tree

There appears to be a common acceptance of a theory that the K1 or K2 keywords, PALIMPSEST and ABSCISSA,
could have been acquired by cribbing the Morse code messages against the K1 CT or K2 CT.
Or that this method was one that Sanborn and Scheidt had expected their op to use.

The following displays ought to put a damper on any such acceptance.
Sure, some of the cribbing reveals parts of the keywords, but unless one had a computer,
the amount of work required - to do even a cursory search for viable fragments - would be an immense undertaking.

Given Keyword: DIGETALINTERPRETATUTISYOURPOSITIONVIRTUALLYINVISIBLESHADOWFORCESLUCIDMEMORYRQSOS (Morse code messages, 80 characters long)

The order is the same as that on the outcroppings, from South to North.

Every letter except JKXZ, which don't occur in the Morse, will reveal part of the keyword for the segment, PALIMPSEST for K1, ABSCISSA for K2.

However, the main letter grouping culprits are:

INVI, POS, SIBLE, OUR, ESL, FOR, INT, IRT, SHAD, TION, ION, ALLY, IN and LI.

Additionally, because of the given order: NVI (POSITIONVIRTUALLU) and LESHAD (INVISIBLESHADOW).

Another way to go about this is organized as follows:

The point to this display is that, without a computer, cribbing the Morse code messages would take an immense amount of time.

And since Jim Sanborn has said, on more than one occasion, that K4 is meant to be fiqured out using ONLY pencil and paper,
cribbing is not what Sanborn or Scheidt expected their op to do.

Monet Friedrich

monetfriedrich@yahoo.com