This is cool to look at but its worthless to use to learn Morse code. Actually learning requires recognizing audio patterns not quickly translating characters into words from a flowchart.
I think the charts were meant for an inexperienced or almost untrained operator (civilian in wartime e.g.) that could write down what they heard, then use a chart to decode it and maybe even send a reply.
It's effectively a Huffman tree based off the frequency letters occur in the English language used to minimize the overall symbol length duration of each letter in a message.
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MicrowavedTea@infosec.pub · 26 pts · 2y
Alternative representation, more like a binary tree
maaneeack@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 2y
D..r.i..n.k mo...r.e o...v..a l.....t..I.....n.e
Drink more Ovaltine?!
motor_spirit@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
cdf12345@lemm.ee · 18 pts · 2y
This is cool to look at but its worthless to use to learn Morse code. Actually learning requires recognizing audio patterns not quickly translating characters into words from a flowchart.
XTL@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 2y
I think the charts were meant for an inexperienced or almost untrained operator (civilian in wartime e.g.) that could write down what they heard, then use a chart to decode it and maybe even send a reply.
No sources, though.
FuryMaker@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y
How does one distinguish between "Tea" and "X"?
Both are dash dot dot dash.
Are there gaps between words or letters?
avguser@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 2y
International Morse code is composed of five elements:
prayer@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 2y
So in between every sound is a silent dot, between letter a silent dash, and every word ~2 silent dashes
hesburger@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 2y
hesburger@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 2y
EmoDuck@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 2y
Those Loss memes are getting crazy
ccunning@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
This is awesome.
If anyone could explain the reasoning behind it; that would be even more awesome. It always just seemed random to me.
avguser@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2y
It's effectively a Huffman tree based off the frequency letters occur in the English language used to minimize the overall symbol
lengthduration of each letter in a message.hesburger@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 2y
The reason behind morse code? It was created to transfer messages through telegraphs
Wild_Mastic@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y
Pretty sure he means the dot and dash combinations. As in, why 'A' is not dot, since it's the first letter of the alphabet?
ccunning@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
This is what I mean and am only now realizing I phrased very poorly…
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
I think he meant on how the chart is used.
as in, start at the wheel, if the first sound is a dot, go left, if it's a dash, go right. second sound etc
I think this one is easier to read: https://lemmy.world/post/14922746
SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 2y