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birdthatlookslikeastick:scarecrowartist:sammiwolfe:coyotecomforts:love-this-pic-dot-com:Morse Code A Visual Guide sammiwolfe important to our lives lol XDOh oh my god now Morse code actually makes SENSE when you lay it out like thatMorse code is pretty sweet.But PLEASE remember:… _ _ _ …(Dit-Dit-Dit-Dah-Dah-Dah-Dit-Dit-Dit)“S.O.S.”This could save a life.It’s father’s day, right?  So, believe it or not, my dad was a railway telegraph operator in his youth.  For real!  It was a tiny railway which still used their landline morse code system to pass messages many decades after everyone else shuttered theirs. It was a short run, so it was cheap to maintain, and it worked just fine for what they needed.  My dad is also a ham radio operator, so he’s really uncommonly good with morse code - both landline type (clickety clickety) and continuous-wave type (dah dit dit dit - as shown above).Interestingly, my dad always told me that serious telegraph operators basically couldn’t use mnemonic methods like the above chart, because they slow you down.  You just have to learn to react to the sound of the code.  A good morse code operator can transcribe 30 or 35 words per minute easily, maybe faster.  At that speed there’s no time to think about what the morse code characters mean.  You generally don’t even attempt to understand the message: the morse code goes in your ear and you write the letters down with your pen, or type them out.  In fact, for some reason it usually works better to “lag” a few characters behind what you’re hearing, just to stop yourself from thinking about it.  Maybe because if you get distracted by the meaning of the words, you mess up.The only pattern built into the morse code alphabet, really, is that letters are 4 characters or fewer, and characters which are more frequent in English (E, T, etc) generally are shorter; this increases transmission speed.  There’s also a pattern to the numbers, as you can see in the graphic.  But other than that it’s really sort of random.Now that there are fewer “serious telegraph operators”, most people generally would only use Morse in some sort of emergency.  Maybe we should start giving some serious thought to teaching people basic fluency in morse code with minimum time invested. I don’t think many people have really thought through this aspect of Morse Code pedagogy properly.  As for me, though, I think I’d feel too guilty if I used any mnemonics… I can still hear my dad telling me it’ll slow me down.That’s so cool! Incidentally, I’ve always heard that it’s better to do it the way you described above too. I feel like having to think through each letter this way would take way too much time. -- source link

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