I learned Morse Code tonight!

-.-- --- ..- / -.- -. --- .-- / -.-- --- ..- / .-. / .- / .-.. .- --.. -.-- / --. . . -.- / .-- .... . -. / ..- / --. --- --- --. .-.. . / ..-. --- .-. / .- / -- --- .-. ... . / - .-. .- -. ... .-.. .- - --- .-.

Where did you pick up the time machine?

I just read your post, jrootham!  I'm so thrilled that I can do this!  It took me a minute but I got it! 

Unionist, what is .----.?

Edited to add - never mind, got it in context.  Punctuation is next on my list of stuff to learn off by heart!

hellointernetfeds. peekabootoyou,too.

Hee!  I'm getting better at this!  Thanks for the practice - I love it that others are playing! :)

Okay, so are you guys using a translator or do you know Morse Code?

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klaatubaradanikto?

Hee.  :)  That's awesome!

Okay, so the harder part is trying to decipher it when you hear it, so I've been using this cool practice tool to do that.  There's just one glitch with it, though - sometimes when it gives you a "2" and you get it right, it says you're wrong and that the right answer is "3".  But other than that, it's great!

I make sure I scroll down enough that I don't see the dots and dashes when it plays the sounds, so that way I'm not "reading" it but simply translating by listening. 

I really should get to bed at some point tonight.

Michelle, one thing that helped me when I was originally learning code was to simply translate every sign I saw as I walked down the street - I got my ham ticket almost 35 years ago and I still find myself doing it subconsciously. 

Thanks for the tip, abnormal.  Actually, that's what I was doing last night, translating the titles of books, captions on posters around the house, etc.  I'm not too bad at that now, but the hard thing for me at the moment is hearing the signal and knowing the letter when hearing it.  I'm trying not to think of the dots and dashes visually, but to immediately go from sound to letter in my mind.  And I'm finding it difficult!  I have a background in music, though, so I should do all right, and be able to hear the pattern and think the letter soon.

Besides, you would think that those of us who are pretty good at sight-reading music would be pretty quick at translating Morse to words, even if you think of the visual dots and dashes, since with music, I find that I can simultaneously think of the letter and the sound and the visual note on the staff.  But then I realized that it's different - if someone played me a tune, I could probably jot it downon a staff, but it would take me much longer to think it out, even though I can sight read quite quickly.

I don't think I'm planning on getting a ham license (and if I'm not mistaken, I don't think you need Morse for it anyhow now, unless it's something like 5 wpm).  Although if I did want to get it, I'd certainlly have enough radio equipment to use!

There must be a catch to this, and I'm obviously missing something (Signals training in this takes weeks), but how can one learn Morse Code in one night?

First rule - they're not dots and dashes, their dits and dahs - so you say a letter as "dit dit dah dit" for example, not as "dot dot dash dot".  Do it long enough and you'll find yourself saying that string so it sounds very much like what you'd hear over the air.

When I learned I had a couple of tapes that actually played at ten wpm but the letters were formed at 15 wpm - that helped a lot - once I could handle that I started monitoring a couple of the ham bands and found someone that was sending just a little faster than I was comfortable - you eventually reach the point where you're actively seeking out the real code freaks.

Is that a personal attack? Should I be offended?  Somebody, quick, call a moderator!

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- --- / - .... . / .... .- .-.. .-.. / --- ..-. / ..-. .- -- . / .-- .. - .... / -.-- --- ..-

-.-- . .- .... .-.-.-  .- -. -.. / .. / -- .. --. .... - / ..- ... . / .. - / ..-. --- .-. / .. -. / -.-. .- .... --- --- - ... / - --- --- .-.-.- 

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Sort of; I can play a stereo.

You folks are good.  No IPhones?

My banter doesn't always really work but most babbler's help me heal.

They do have an app for that! I just downloaded the free app but when I get good they have a HAM one that does the wpm people were describing earlier!