dah-dah dah-dah-dah dit-dah-dit dit-dit-dit dit
August 3, 2009 – 9:46 amYes, as you may have guessed from the title, I’ve decided to learn Morse code. I can’t see it ever being particularly useful, but I’ve still got two months to kill until I go back to Uni, so what the heck.
And it isn’t actually as hard as it sounds, thanks to a incredibly useful program called “Just Learn Morse Code“. If anyone else is interested in learning Morse code, I’d thoroughly recommend it. Rather than starting slow as many other methods of learning Morse do, it starts you at full speed but with a limited character set (2 to start with). Once you’re confident with those characters, you add another character to the set and start again.
Strictly, it’s a Windows program but I can confirm it works on a Mac through CrossOver and presumably also on Linux through WINE. And best of all, it’s free!
3 Responses to “dah-dah dah-dah-dah dit-dah-dit dit-dit-dit dit”
Convenient if you are paralysed and can only communicate via blinking. Otherwise you are limited to the Star Trek method, one blink for yes, 2 blinks for no!
By Mike on Aug 7, 2009
So, have you learned it then ?
As a telegraphist (high-speed morse) of old (learned in 1971) have you actually learned the code and if so, have you noticed how people in films manage to create a full sentence from about 5 characters ?
if so then you may have learned it.
Your next hurdle would be to type it as you hear it.. transcribe… instead of writing it down unless, of course, you learned how to do base character writing as well ?
cheers
Rocky
By Rocky on Aug 31, 2009
I’m still (slowly) learning it (when I remember). I’m up to 7 characters so far, so I’m doing better than most films – but I’ve still got a long way to go!
By James Baker on Aug 31, 2009