i dont have all that much to infodump abt morse code- (proceeds to spill it all)
The story behind the code is cool and sad: Samuel Morse, who was a painter and inventor, was away from his wife when she was sick and dying, and because mail was hand-delivered, he only learned about it after her death. (he missed the funeral too poor guy) the thing is his frustration led to him developing telegraph lines which while pretty much instant over any distance (single circut electricity oh my god engineering i am so normal about my beloved engineering anywaays) couldnt really transmit words and stuff so he decided to make some kind of code that could be transmitted over telegraph Sam himself made the main structure with leonard gale but the guy who really pulled the code together and made it transmittable over sound instead of just writing was alfred vail so thanks alfred
I am really good at the written version and i dont need conversion charts and while i am worse at the sound version if you slow it down i am decently good
The thing is there is a massive difference between learning written symbols and actually learning it by sound and the way i learned was through mnemonics and correlating letters so instead of thinking of r (._.) as baymax face i think of it as stressed and unstressed syllables (ro-TA-tion) but instead of remembering L (._..) by something, I think of it as backwards F (.._.)
People used to transcribe morse code messages by hand and that's really hard but now with the advent of keyboards professional/competitive (scribes[?]) (I forgot the word) can do up to 60 words per minute compared to written average of 20 wpm
Dots and dashes are also called dits and dahs and officially you play dots for 1 beat and dashes for 3 beats you separate dots and dashes with pauses that last 1 beat you separate letters within a word with pauses that last 3 beats and you separate words with 7 beat pauses
in the written system you separate letters with slashes and words with slash-space-slash kinda but the system i use is just a little different in very minor ways and the way i format changes often
uh thx for listening ig have a nice day (•w•)
