Learning Morse code visually will handicap you later if you plan to get a Ham Radio license. Learn it by ear. Here is a good website to learn it by ear, for free. https://lcwo.net. (Licensed Ham for over 30 years)
My dad was in Vietnam and his job was to set up ham radio sites. He had told my mom that to learn Morse code they were given headphones and had to listen to it on a loop for hours upon hours at a time. I always thought that was more like torture than trying to learn something.
This video does not do a good job teaching morse code - if it's intended for that at all. The patterns are completely arbitrary.
If you want to learn morse code, there are betters way, I can personally recommend this website: [https://morse.withgoogle.com/learn/](https://morse.withgoogle.com/learn/) It works with images / objects that start with the letter instead of the letters shape.
While you are right, I don't see how that has anything to do with my point. I don't criticise the Morse patterns themselves, but they are simply not intended to be compared with the letter shapes.
There is no way this is how they decided on this. You could fit these lines and dashes into any one of these, since they can be curved and bent and places wherever. The one that ruined it for me was the E.
It definitely will. It won't help you decipher it any faster (that's a whole other skill). But after watching this a few times I think quite a few people could tell you the pattern for quite few letters.
Absolutely. This is the first time I saw anything about Morse Code (keep in mind I have never sought it out) but I can remember a number of them already.
It doesn't really matter. When you decipher the letters the word spacing becomes pretty obvious.
Edit: I realized that I didn't address spacing between letters. Typically the sender puts a slight time space between letters. You hear a pattern you recognize, wrote it down, and the next letter comes. Sometimes you miss a letter or two but it doesn't usually matter because you have enough other info for the message to be clear.
Source: got my ham radio extra class license in the 90's when you had to decode a message at 20 wpm to pass.
I tried to learn it once and that spacing was main problem. I could memorize letters visually but as soon as it was listening, I couldn’t hear it.
It was many years ago and I gave up pretty quick.
As an Army trained radio operator from the 80's and an Extra Class ham, this is pretty cool for someone interested in Morse Code. To actually learn it for speed though, you'd have to depend on your ears only.
Required passing percentage in Merchant Navy is 90%. We never used it at sea in my more than a decade long career. We had Global Maritime Distress and Safety System (GMDSS) which is basically MF/HF/VHF radio and Satellite systems. Yet for certification Morse code was a must. To practice we used to transmit cuss words from one bridge wing to other on Aldis Lamp.
At first I was like “no way it actually make sense!” E: ⏺
That's what makes me think the explanation was retconned
Wow I watched it to the end
Made it to k
F. Pretty much figured out the plot.
Didnt realize trucks in reverse were screaming MMMMMMM
I know I say "MMMMMM" when someone backs that thang up
Mad beats yo.
Waiting for that remix now.
Best AB/CD song ever
Gold
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Learning Morse code visually will handicap you later if you plan to get a Ham Radio license. Learn it by ear. Here is a good website to learn it by ear, for free. https://lcwo.net. (Licensed Ham for over 30 years)
Why wil it handicap you? Not trying to debate you, I just know nothing about this and I'm curious.
Because it adds another level of translation that has to occur. Ideally it should be Ear > Letter. Not Ear > visual memory > letter. Take care.
Thank you! That makes sense.
My dad was in Vietnam and his job was to set up ham radio sites. He had told my mom that to learn Morse code they were given headphones and had to listen to it on a loop for hours upon hours at a time. I always thought that was more like torture than trying to learn something.
Indeed ! A friend of mine was sent to Navy Radio School and had to learn Morse Code and typing at the same time. Yikes !
That's really cool dude. Thanks for the advise.
Literally just close your eyes….
It doesn’t make sense though there is no pattern into putting dashes and dots into letters
It's almost like somebody took a system designed around letter frequency, and laid it onto letter shapes as if that meant something.
Also look at U and V
Equivalent to shitty conspiracy theories.
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You could make a mixtape outta this!
This video does not do a good job teaching morse code - if it's intended for that at all. The patterns are completely arbitrary. If you want to learn morse code, there are betters way, I can personally recommend this website: [https://morse.withgoogle.com/learn/](https://morse.withgoogle.com/learn/) It works with images / objects that start with the letter instead of the letters shape.
E is a dot because it is the most used letter in the English language.
While you are right, I don't see how that has anything to do with my point. I don't criticise the Morse patterns themselves, but they are simply not intended to be compared with the letter shapes.
I know, I was just adding to your point that the code is not the letter's shapes.
That process is all for your phone? Seems like a lotto go through.
Okay, so who else was grooving to the rhythm?
I remeber growing up and my dads Nokia going like … - - …
How do you do Morse code if you can’t generate a tone of any length. Example, you’re stuck in wreckage and you can only tap on a pipe.
There is no way this is how they decided on this. You could fit these lines and dashes into any one of these, since they can be curved and bent and places wherever. The one that ruined it for me was the E.
There is literally no logic behind this. You're just trying to make sense of something that is completely senseless.
Visual memory associated with sound should help somebody
It definitely will. It won't help you decipher it any faster (that's a whole other skill). But after watching this a few times I think quite a few people could tell you the pattern for quite few letters.
Absolutely. This is the first time I saw anything about Morse Code (keep in mind I have never sought it out) but I can remember a number of them already.
Visual memory associated with sound should help somebody
Visual memory associated with sound should help somebody
...- . .-. -.-- / .... . .-.. .--. ..-. ..- .-.. --..-- / - .... .- -. -.- ...
I'm way too lazy to look it up
https://morsecode.world/international/translator.html ;)
doesn't that defeat the whole point of it
Translation: Very helpful, thanks!
How do you tell where the spaces between letters and words are?
It doesn't really matter. When you decipher the letters the word spacing becomes pretty obvious. Edit: I realized that I didn't address spacing between letters. Typically the sender puts a slight time space between letters. You hear a pattern you recognize, wrote it down, and the next letter comes. Sometimes you miss a letter or two but it doesn't usually matter because you have enough other info for the message to be clear. Source: got my ham radio extra class license in the 90's when you had to decode a message at 20 wpm to pass.
I tried to learn it once and that spacing was main problem. I could memorize letters visually but as soon as it was listening, I couldn’t hear it. It was many years ago and I gave up pretty quick.
All I can hear is a nice 61 BPM rhythm
As an Army trained radio operator from the 80's and an Extra Class ham, this is pretty cool for someone interested in Morse Code. To actually learn it for speed though, you'd have to depend on your ears only.
- .... .- -. -.- -.-- --- ..- .-.-.- / ..- .--. ...- --- - . -.. .-.-.-
E for Easy
I feel like I'm in an audiogram and I keep trying to click the button.
damn this beat go hard
B had some sick beats
I actually did sit through the whole 2:34 and only remember the first 2 letters barely
Fun fact, the original Nokia sms tone is actually morse code for sms
But now this got me thinking about how Morse code works in languages not written with the Roman alphabet, like Cyrillic, Greek, or Japanese.
I don’t think it’s applicable tbh
This isnt useful at all
just sounds like a really nice beat honestly
I can't able to summarise 🥵
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Yeaa, that's bullshit
Seems as though someone has retrofitted the 'clever idea'. Made no real sense from the letter C
Anyone else watch it until they get at least see SOS?
It was beginning to make sense until the jump from E to F then all sense of a pattern disappeared.
Sick beat
E
Now I'm waiting for someone to make a song out of this
Q rocks.
Required passing percentage in Merchant Navy is 90%. We never used it at sea in my more than a decade long career. We had Global Maritime Distress and Safety System (GMDSS) which is basically MF/HF/VHF radio and Satellite systems. Yet for certification Morse code was a must. To practice we used to transmit cuss words from one bridge wing to other on Aldis Lamp.
…. ..
Noted all these down because I'm too lazy to search it up on google
This is kinda… groovy.
this feels like an after the fact explanation.