"The Alphabet" in morse code

Example of the alphabet using morse code

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Education

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• Alphabet
• Morse
• Code
• Language
• Ham
• Radio
• CW
• Performing
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• Portsmouth
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[aa8ky]

On this particular key, yes. You realize that it is connected to a "keyer" with three wires. If you hold the left larger paddle against the contacts, it will send a series of short dits until released. The right small button if held against the contacts will send a series of longer dahs until released. So you have to develop a rhythm to send the dits and dahs. The "keyer" also has an adjustable speed to it. If you look at my channel you will see other style keys. Thanks for asking!

[jedihacim]

@aa8ky no offense but u just seem so optimistic wit h all of the "thanks for asking!" any way i wanted to know where can i get one of those things u were using?

[aa8ky]

@jedihacim Sorry jedihacim, just trying to be polite. If you go to my channel you will see my web site address. Go there and look at the links. There are several dealers you can order off of online and see the products or call them first.

[WelshGreen8225]

how can you distinguish between letters and words in morse code? its so confusing!

[aa8ky]

@WelshGreen8225 The letters have a short pause between them. The words have a longer pause between them.

Thanks for asking!

[MorraNfff]

fun fact #1 on older phones when you get a text, the vibrations are du du du duu duu du du du

which is morse code for SMS

[aa8ky]

@MorraNfff Great Factoid!  Thanks!

[aa8ky]

@High2Tension A question mark is dit dit dah dah dit dit, so I suppose you would keep repeating that.

[aa8ky]

@stupidvid5229 I was just about 13 at the time, but it took about a week to learn everything. It took years to develop skill and accuracy, but you can be understandable after a week or so.

[dynamite11]

Man, this takes me back. My grandfather was a fast key on ham radio, and whenever I'd go visit my grandparents as a kid, I'd hear the symphony of dits and dahs from his radio room. Fond memories.

[cygil1]

@WelshGreen8225 Morse is a kind of code called a "huffman code." The mathematics is too complicated to get into here, but it basically has the property that, so long as you know the dot or dash on which a letter starts, the pattern of the dots and dashes are such that it will always be clear where the letter ends. Additionally, there are brief pauses between words (and sometimes letters as well.)

[WindowsSoftwareDe]

so if hold the bigger red button it sends dots (short signal) and if you hold the small button it send long signal?