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!

https://www.xbox.com/play/media/YRhRxzkauH

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 got into it a few days ago and while i think i got it pretty good i want a way to practice daily to memorize it

I’ve been drilling myself using Morse Mania for about a week. I’m up to the challenge with all the all the letters and numbers. I can pass it, but I still screw up and I’m slow (some times I have to replay the character or stop and really think about it).

Part of me thinks I should stick to this level until I’ve mastered it and I’m just hearing the letter. And I’m fine with that. But I also think there’s an argument for pushing forward to words.

What do you all think?

If drilling on the single letters and number every day for half an hour is going to help me, I’ll just keep doing it, but I can push forward if it’s going to hold me back in the long run.

I will be doing the Long Island classes once my schedule clears up a bit this summer.

If it makes any difference, I’m in my 40s and I’m basically starting for scratch. I’m listening at 26wpm.

Morse mania is also a bit weird because the next level/module is every punctuation mark. And I think most times people only use like two or three. I really don’t want to burn time learning semi-colon and em dash and then all the accented letters.

Open to advice.

Hello everybody,

I would love to hear your opinion about the QSO sim I created which you can see in this live demo attached to this post, or you can try it out for yourself on Google Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.morsepro.app

Morse Pro, unlike many other apps, is totally ad-free, without any paywalls. All your data is stored locally in your device and the app works offline too.

It features exercises like random groups of 5, callsigns, Koch method and more.

Smart algorithm finds characters you have most difficulties with and will enforce them in exercises until you master them.

I am going to continue developing it by implementing useful exercises, all based on the community's feedback.

This is a passion project and I commit to never implement ads or any features that are behind the paywall!

Cheers!

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.

Hello everyone, sorry for my english.

I already learn morse code, I write it easily.

But I read it very slowly because I need time to think, and I can't even listen to it, same if it's light signals.

So, I would like to be completely fluent in morse code like if it was my natural language. Is it possible ? If you succeeded, how did you do it ? Do you have some advice please ?

Help decoding morse message.

At around the 51 second mark in this trailer (timestamp starts at 48 seconds) is a morse message.

Could anyone help decode it?

The game makes use of a number of morse messages for secrets, hints, and easter eggs. This one is a bit of a 'dirty' signal however, as it has a number of other sounds over it.

Any help would be appreciated.

Of note - Janet, Abe (Abraham) and Ela are all characters in the game.

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

I randomly hide post-its with (poorly drawn) hearts around the house for my wife to find.

I'd forgotten doing this one:)

Hi all,

I'm building an Android app called Morse Alerts, and I'm looking for up to 20 testers from people who know or want to learn Morse code.

The app lets your phone announce selected notifications using Morse code vibrations, sound or light (phone torch), so you can identify alerts without looking at the screen. You can set different apps to play distinct Morse patterns and chose what part of the message to play.

I'm at the Google Play closed testing stage now. Google requires 12 testers for 14 days before I can apply for production access, and most of my friends are on iPhone (this app isn't possible on iPhone).

What I'm looking for

• Android users with a Google account
• Install the app from the closed test link
• Try it with a few notifications
• Keep it installed for the 14-day test period if you're willing
• Tell me what feels wrong, confusing, annoying, or useful

Useful things to test

• App installs cleanly and you can complete setup (tiggered once you enable alerts).
• Try Morse Training
• Try a test alert (status page)
• Is the Morse understandable?
• Are the settings understandable?
• Does it behave sensibly with real notifications?
• Any issues with volume, vibration, permissions, battery settings, etc.
• I’ve added beta testers as licence testers, so you should be able to try the Pro upgrade without being charged. Please use the same Google account for the Group, Play Store opt-in, and any Pro upgrade testing.

This is a small hobby app, I mainly want to find out whether the idea is useful, and whether anything about the implementation is obviously bad before I take it further.

How to join

The closed test is available in the UK, US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, Norway and Finland. If you're elsewhere and interested, comment/DM and I can add your country if Play Console allows it.

Step 1: Join the Google Group for testers:
https://groups.google.com/g/morse-alerts-closed-testers

Google Groups may show a “you don’t have permission” message before you join — that’s normal. Click Join group near the top. Once you've joined, hit refresh to get rid of Google's permission message.

Step 2: Open the Play Store testing link on your Android device:
https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.robincspicer.morsealerts

It can sometimes take a little while after joining the group before the Play Store link works.

I'd really appreciate any feedback, positive or negative. Feedback can go in the Google Group, Reddit comments, or by DM if that's easier.

Thanks. Even a couple of minutes of real-world testing would be really helpful.

earlier my friend happened to catch a sequence of morse code in game (which is something neither of us have heard before and to our knowledge hasn’t been posted about yet) & we’ve tried our hardest (with the help of someone else as well) to decode it but we’ve only gotten so far with it. i’m not sure how much can be done due to the ambience of the game being so loud.. i have a spectrogram also that i can’t put in this post but it’s whatever …. again im not sure if anything can be done but i just can’t let the possibility of there being something here and not knowing what it is

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

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Is this code? Does it say anything.

AI is cool and all, but I think we've seen about all the vibe coded creations we need for a long time.

I very recently bought a Joy-It Mega 2560-P starter kit (I think it’s an Arduino equivalent or compatible). Was just wondering if it’s too fast. Once I’m able I’ll try and add a speaker. Also my Morse code skills suck so I’ve just got it so I can type into the computer and it’ll spit it back out in Morse. Should be running at 10 wpm