What is the comprehensive International Morse Code alphabet chart that includes all English alphabetic letters from A to Z in a complete table format?
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I asked Bing bot and it gave me this link. It looks like a PDF with a table of all the characters.
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If you want to learn Morse code here’s great online trainer:
The best way to do this is to set the character speed to a high number, say 30 words per minute and set the effective speed to a low number, say 5 words per minute. The reason for doing this is to prevent you from counting dots and dashes (the way I learned) and forcing you to learn each character by its rhythm. This is called the Farnsworth method (Farnsworth was a British code instructor way back when).
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Linux has a morse code translator
https://itsfoss.community/t/morse-code-translater/11513
There are also several other tools
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On May 24, 1844, Samuel F. B. Morse dispatched the first telegraphic message
Get ready to celebrate !
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In Australia, during WW2 there was a huge project to build an overland telegraph line from Adelaide to Darwin.
It was an effort to give Southern Australia communication with the rest of the world.
A member of my mothers family was working on the line
construction in the Northern Territory, near Alice Springs.
He became lost in the bush, and was not found for days, and when found was very distressed. It turned out he had contracted meningitis as a child, and the stress of being lost
had reactivated it. He was severely mentally affected and
had to be cared for.
So, Morse code for me , reactivateds a family tragedy. I must remember Uncle Jack and keep him in my prayers.
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Interesting little fact.
" When did the U.S. Navy stop using Morse code?
In the United States the final commercial Morse code transmission was on July 12, 1999, signing off with Samuel Morse’s original 1844 message, WHAT HATH GOD WROUGHT, and the prosign SK (“end of contact”). As of 2015, the United States Air Force still trains ten people a year in Morse."
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In France we used semaphore hand held signal flags for communications and in most places the towers still exist especially in our area due to the close proximity to the spanish boarder which through time moved as the wars between france and spain caused the line between the countries change.
Our town was on the line has still got one of these towers, it still functions but now is and electronic monitor station and lighthouse, many years ago it was open to the public to visit one day per year but that has now stopped.
France stopped using this system in 1855. Although boats still carry flags and sailors are still taught the system.
Life before morse code. Hard to imaging life before the internet now !
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