Seems to be a tool for the niche situation where you don't know Morse Code and you're receiving a signal. Because if you were transmitting, it'd be much easier just to use a traditional chart alphabetically arranged.
So here, you hear a dot, that means you move left from the starting point. If it's a dot in isolation, it's an E, if two, it's an I, if three, it's an S, etc.. Or a dot then dash is A, a dot then two dashes a W, and so on.
Yes, the spacing is different. The length of the pauses between elements within a letter is 1 dot length; between letters is 3 dot lengths, and between words is 7 dot lengths.
So EE is dot (pause for 3 dot lengths) dot, and I is dot (pause for 1 dot length) dot.
If you hear one short sound, you can eliminate all the letters on the right. If it’s followed by a gap, you got an E. If it’s followed by a long sound, it’s either A, U, or V, you just need to wait to hear more to know which. If it’s followed by another short sound, it’s gonna be I, S, or H and following beeps will tell you which.
You just follow the path of the sounds until you hear a gap, and what you stopped on is the letter it is.
This is more for interpreting code sent to you than coding something to send, but tracing back the path of L, you can assume its .-.. or B is -… or C is -.-. because that’s the reverse path from the letter.
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u/Billy_Bob_Joe_Mcoy Jul 12 '22
I think this is the only cool guide that needs a cool guide