How to Learn Morse Code in 90 Minutes
I guarantee you can learn Morse Code in 90 minutes–or your money back!
1. Get out a piece of lined paper (unlined will work; lined is best) and a pen or pencil.
2. Make sure you have a Morse code table to copy from (print mine?)
3. Start at the top row of letters, write A: on the first line of your paper, and copy the first code sequence ( .- ) all across that line. (If you’re using a small pad of paper, do two lines of A.) On the next line, write B: and copy B’s code; do the same for C.
4. When you’ve finished writing a line each of those three letters, do a short “review”, and do one each of A, B, and C.
5. Repeat with the second row of letters (D, E, F). Then do another review, starting from the beginning.
6. After every three new letters, do another review and write them all from the beginning.
7. When you’ve gone through the whole alphabet, circle the letters in the last review that you have trouble with, and practice them one line apiece.
8. After practicing your “trouble” letters, do another review of them.
9. Go through the whole alphabet again. Write things in code to cement it in your mind. For instance, “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” contains every letter in the alphabet and is a great excercise.
10. Enjoy your new knowledge! Stump your friends!
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July 23rd, 2006 at 9:30 am
[...] And I re-put-up my Morse Code page. That was pretty popular, but I guess I’d forgotten to put it back up. [...]
February 3rd, 2007 at 4:41 am
Can you help please, what the heck does this mean? thank you .. — Â .- Â -.-. .-. . . .–. .. — Â .- Â .– . .. .-. -.. — Â
February 8th, 2007 at 7:25 am
I´m a composer and the morse code will be a great help for my new
work for clarinet in Bs/bass clarinet, Vibrafone/percussion and
electronics “Terninckgang” (prelude to a living forest street)
Thanks.
Juan Carlos
February 14th, 2007 at 11:06 pm
hello my name is caitlyn i am in gr.4 and i am doing a project on
morse code and a project on light
February 20th, 2007 at 5:19 pm
thanks a bunch now me and my buddies have a way of communicating
in class without the teacher knowing
February 20th, 2007 at 5:20 pm
do u love me forever know?
February 21st, 2007 at 12:20 pm
Very good method for learning morse. That’s about what I did to learn it for Air Traffic Control/Flight training.
The CHALLENGE comes, however, in trying to remember it if you don’t practice daily!
I’ll dig through my notes…there are a few letters that I had memory tricks for.
Maybe I can find those and post them for you. i.e., ‘Papa’ is mom and dad standing around their 2 big kids: .__.
‘Romeo’ is the big guy with the women around him: ._.
etc…little things but they helped me.
February 23rd, 2007 at 12:39 am
It’s easy enough to memorize writing the dots and dashes and matching the written to the corresponding letters.
The next part, actually being able to recognize those when you hear them, is a little bit harder.
I recommend after you go through the exercises described above, practice listening to the sound by taking a sentence you hear, or a few lyrics from a song on the radio, and tap them out. Or say the dots and dashes out loud as if you were a radio tap so you can get used to what they sound like as groupings that your brain translates into letters.
Even after doing that, it still takes practice listening to code that someone else has sent and translating it quickly enough. The TV show “Jericho” has a snippet of morse code every week, different for each episode, that makes good practice, especially if you have Tivo and can cheat to listen to it over and over until you get it.
March 15th, 2007 at 1:57 pm
.. — .- -.-. .-. . . .–. .. — .- .– . .. .-. -.. — Is “I’m a creep I’m a weirdo” from the Radiohead song Creep…..yaaaaa
March 16th, 2007 at 3:11 am
Avada Kedravra!
March 28th, 2007 at 2:17 pm
hi um how do you make the sound for the dots and dashes
April 18th, 2007 at 12:43 am
That method is WAY too complex to be considered. Try mine, and learn Morse Code in 20 minutes or less. Write the letter, then the corresponding Morse Code, then write a word that begins with that letter, and has as many letters as the number of units in the code. For eg. :
A .- aN
B -… Barf
C -.-. CoCk
and so on.
Every letter that symbolises a dash is in Caps. Soon,
you’ll find urself saying : a-N; an; dot-dash.
B-a-r-f; barf; dash-dot-dot.
Try it, it worked for me! And it’s great fun, too.
May 17th, 2007 at 8:50 pm
-. — .– .-. .- .–. .-.-.- -.. — -.-. what’s this??????????????
June 13th, 2007 at 7:49 pm
Good practice for Morse is when riding a bicycle, sing out the numbers and letters of passing cars number plates. The dots being di or dit and the dashes being dah. This practice can get a bit addictive, and if cycling through a town, you soon get good at singing out the names of shops in morse, plus all the cars and traffic signs.
But certainly good practice in remembering the characters.
October 7th, 2007 at 7:57 pm
Hm. I finks I should learn morse code.