There is an absolutely fantastic podcast from the Memory Palace – called “Distance” which tells the story of Morse and why it was developed – have a listen
For a lot of radio operators and HAM enthusiasts morse sounds like this:
looking at the stats from AT-Node here.
The book that we mention is AdaptiveDesigns pages where they have got the entire book available to download in sections.
As another great introductory video on Morse take a look at this video from VSauce who nicely discusses the pros and cons of different ways of learning morse:
There are a lot of different tools to learn morse online:
So we have used the Morse learn for a number of clients but as we discussed this isn’t great for people who have a visual impairment – and some (e.g. the VSauce video above) feel that auditory just works better for them. So we have created an adapted morse-learn app which is available at http://github.com/acecentre/morse-learn
| Letter | Phonetic | Morse | Mnemoic |
| A | Alpha | •– | a-PART |
| B | Bravo | –••• | BE a good boy |
| C | Charlie | –•–• | CHAR-lies ANG-els |
| D | Delta | –•• | DOG did it |
| E | Echo | • | eek! |
| F | Foxtrot | ••–• | did i FAIL it |
| G | Golf | – –• | GREAT GATS-by |
| H | Hotel | •••• | hip-pi-ty-hop |
| I | India | •• | eye-eye! |
| J | Juliet | •– – – | lets JUMP JUMP JUMP |
| K | Kilo | –•– | KAN-ga-ROO |
| L | Lima | •–•• | a LA-dy bug |
| M | Mike | – – | LIKE MIKE |
| N | November | –• | NA-vy |
| O | Oscar | – – – | OH MY GOD |
| P | Papa | •– –• | a POO-PY smell |
| Q | Quebec | – –•– | GOD SAVE the QUEEN |
| R | Romeo | •–• | a RABB-it |
| S | Sierra | ••• | SS-SS-SS (like a snake) |
| T | Tango | – | TALL |
| U | Uniform | ••– | un-der-WHERE? |
| V | Victor | •••– | beet-ho-vens FIFTH (“der der der DUUUUH”) |
| W | Whisky | •– – | a WHITE WHAAALE |
| X | xray | –••– | EXX marks the SPOT |
| Y | Yankee | –•– – | YOUR’E-a-COOL-DUDE |
| Z | Zulu | – –•• | ZINC ZOO keep-er |
Do have a look at Jim Lubins website for a lot of links to products and solutions available.
In short, we have some hardware like the excellent TandemMaster which sees any PC/Mac/iOS device as a keyboard & mouse – OR there are some software solutions that you can use on iOS or Windows.
