r/morsecode

Hi Morse Coders and Radio Enthusiasts,

I'm a college student assigned to write a short story over the summer. I've taken an interest into the phenomenon of amalgam metal fillings catching signals from high-powered AM radio stations. That led me on a rabbit-hole to researching Morse Code, and I plan to incorporate it into my story. Unfortunately, there's not many research materials on Morse Code, and I'm a little too busy doing errands to watch a bunch of Youtube videos, so I have a list of questions. Any answers or directions to answers are greatly appreciated.

Note: I have sparingly tried A.I. for answers, but I'm against using generative A.I. and the answers weren't super helpful. All other searches were through Google.

Questions:

• I am under the assumption that very basic antennas can pick up AM radio signals easily. What do these antennas sound like?
  • Do the "very basic" or modified antennas (such as weeds on a transmitting antenna in this reddit thread) work without speakers?
  • Can you hear clear sound, or is it just vibrations (regarding an antenna without speakers)?
• Have you heard of this phenomenon before? Have people seen the Lucille Ball clip? My guess is that this subreddit skews much older, so I'm hoping that Morse code strikes interest in an older generation (professors).
• Has the U.S. always used American Morse Code, or does it use International Morse Code now?
  • Why does the U.S. Army use International Morse Code in their training videos?
    • Was International Morse Code only learned for wartime?
  • What were the use circumstances for American Morse Code?
    • Is it a dead language?
  • Has American Morse Code changed over the years in any meaningful way?
    • Is there a "slang" dictionary for American Morse code?
• What is common shorthand used when communicating in Morse Code?
• There's a clip from the U.S. Army I mentioned earlier (same link, 6:52 for this question). Does "Poor Hand Spacing" matter as much in any current Morse communication?
  • What is the normal spacing for Morse Code by enthusiasts today?
  • Does anywhere still use Morse Code to communicate?
• What's some insider knowledge about Morse Code and communicating with it most people wouldn't know?

I know this was a very long list of questions. I'm not insane, I just get overly curious about topics. It is a beautiful 95 degree summer day and I am currently unemployed, so I have nothing better to do.

Thanks all!

My friend signed my yearbook and he wrote in morse code. He told me I have to decipher it even though it might be a waste of my time. He purposefully left out the slashes too. My interpretations so far have been "AVNUL" "RUN UBTL" and "LADAL". None of those make sense, can someone help me out? Maybe he lowkey just wrote a bunch of gibberish 😭

I'm am trying to solve an ARG, but i've tried so many times to decode it, and use audio readers, so if anyone can translate this it may help me solve solve what happened to dodie.

I got handed this bracelet that says “ur cute” and i can’t tell if maybe the bead pattern means smth??

This is a list of resources for learning morse code. Its currently incomplete and I would love to add more things that are either unique or something that many people advice/use.

Free/paid apps: all things listed here are available without paying, but some have a premium/paid version. In that case there will be a dollar/$ sign behind it.

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#Serious learning:

LCWO

Morse Ninja Amazing amount of audio recourses for learning to copy morse code!

Vband for communicating with other people ( a lot of good CW operators are on here

RufZXP

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#Specific Phone apps:

Morse chat $ Free/premium versions. Premium truly helps getting an understanding of how to get better at sending.

Morse mania $ An app designed for learning characters. There is a free version, but the paid version will give you many more options.

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#Fun Games with morse: Some of these help you learn. Some are just for fun.

SOS forgotten planet is video game where you send more code to open doors and flee from monsters. Its free as of now.

Morsle : a site like wordle but fun for morse copy training(a bit more advanced) good for a Dailey challenge.

MORSE $ video game where you destroy ships sending charachters. There is a paid version, but the demo is quite big and free.

Morse Rhythm

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What are things i could add?

 

Hey r/morsecode,

2 weeks ago I shared MorseKit here and got a lot of feedback, some warm, some critical, some pretty pointed. I took notes on all of it and wanted to come back and share the changes we shipped since then, because most of these were directly raised in that thread.

What we changed:

• Fixed audio issues. There were a few cases where the sound wasn't clean or didn't play properly, those are resolved now.
• Fixed timing. The CW timing was off in some places. We went through the generation logic and corrected the ratios across the board. Should be aligned with standard timing now.
• Visual dit/dah representation is now OFF by default. You can still turn it on as an option if you want it as a beginner aid, but the default experience is sound-only, which is what most people in this thread argued for and I think they were right.
• On ads: heads up that you'll see a small number of ads for a short while as we work through some monetization changes.
• Fixed language related errors

What's coming next:

• Receive-only lessons. Some users told us they'd rather not learn the send side by tapping on a touchscreen, which is fair. We're adding a receive only path so you can focus purely on copying.
• Updated tools section. We're refreshing the tooling part of the app, including a flashlight (light signaling) mode and a few more utilities we'll roll out gradually.

I know one update post isn't going to win over anyone who was skeptical, and that's fair. But if you gave feedback in the original thread, your input is in this version of the app. That mattered to me.

Going forward we'll be posting regular dev blogs and product updates over at r/MorseKit so we don't clutter this sub. We might still drop in here for the bigger milestones, but the day to day stuff lives over there. If you want to come hang out, drop feature requests, report bugs, or just share your streaks and progress, you're more than welcome. We'd genuinely love to have you.

You can grab the download links here:

Website
Android
IOS

73 ✋

Across the street from my friend's apartment. Is this even morse code?

Anyone know what this says? Or which way is beginning and end? Please help