Easy way to translate Morse code

[@JohnLeePettimoreIII]

I have never before seen Morse Code diagrammed like this. A very logical and intelligent way to visualize this system. Well done, and thank you!

[@eugenecbell]

Ask any CW instructor, one should not visualize the code. It is best to learn it by ear.

[@variniaspartacus5860]

you taught me more in 3 mins compared to what the military in a year.

[@zachsmith1253]

Ya he did but the military teaches you more and better explained than he did

[@irishtrapper9149]

varinia spartacus Yeah right, like you served in the Military.

[@アヤミ]

VolunteerEMS turns out he did

[@pieloloon]

its easier if you have they key to morse smacked into your face than trying to ask for help with a hole in your left leg

[@0623kaboom]

yeah this is a bazillion times easier than the mil way ... and its freaking fast and easy

[@bluejaysbaseball]

“One long, two dots; That gives you D.” It’s not rocket science you guys.

[@mfadhilal-fatih1427]

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[@-XeNa_]

@@mfadhilal-fatih1427 what is that before lol

[@mfadhilal-fatih1427]

@@-XeNa_ im just describe what does this comment mean

[@thatasianguy4011]

IM FUCKING DYING

[@copterhelibevibin2785]

@@mfadhilal-fatih1427 "i did"?

[@ecotech6]

one long and two dots. that gives you D :- lol

[@KrAusIdckid]

EcoTech6 *looses all faith in humanity*

[@preyrez8138]

That didn't take long..

[@oxflamingo7458]

XD

[@yna5291]

okay but why does this have 69 likes

[@thetryfan6529]

Ohhhhhh

[@waynestambaugh]

My Dad was a radio operator with the Baltimore and Ohio railroad when he was young. He tried numerous times to get me to learn Morse Code. If he would have presented it like you have I'm sure I would have learned it. Guess it never too late! Thanks for a better way of understanding it. Now it makes sense.

[@holdthissl]

is that a wand from harry potter??? lol

[@zellafae]

PatsNation That's what I was thinking 😂

[@lily-ep3el]

PatsNation it's not learn some Harry potter

[@kelceyfirth]

games games looks like Voldemort’s wand

[@czeslawsutkowy9239]

games games after not add a comma for sense

[@rewaken3034]

its not become a potterhead

[@bananaworld4502]

im in my 30´s now and was always amazed by the morse code pages in my dads navy manuals. i never managed to learn the code until i saw this video just now. its the first time i understand how it works. dash= go left. dot = go right. in the chart you show. awesome !!! thanks for the help :-)

[@TheShawna1]

the problem with this chart which I think is cool, but there is no way you could posibly look to all posibilities while you were listening or watching a light to get the entire message. you would miss all sorts of letters you just cant read the chart fast enough with out missing letters!The best way to learn is by sound at full speed say 20 words per minute. human speach is 60 words per minute.Check out LCWO.net.Now if i had to decode a written message of dots and dashes sure the chart woul be perfect.Jim KB1PFL

[@wansolve2036]

Howard W SAMs had a code training book & cassette in the 60's that used this chart. That's how I learned it. It'll get you started but you soon have to forget the chart and go by what you know else you'll never get past 10 wpm.

[@imdanielmartinez]

ah now i get it. left is dash and right is dot. so if you read c it will be - . - . and if p . - - . if you go below the tree just remember left branch is dah or dash and right branch is dit or dot

[@treesnature4372]

pinoy vendetta Yes? You had any problem? I can help! Don’t forget you mention me bro

[@ashishkumarsharma1323]

Trees Nature what is dah dah dah dah

[@frankhatton8242]

Works for a torch as well any morse in fact cheers thanks for the info ....---

[@aristeidislykas7163]

Thank you for explaining this!

[@Subhumanoid_]

Ahhhhhh!! Just the most basic info that he skipped.

[@user-xs5fj3ms2l]

Thanks! I'm 62. I've always considered MC to be the ultimate thing on my Bucket List. But it never occurred to me that it could be so simple. While its simplicity is encouraging, I have no doubt that it would require a great deal of practice.

[@borlani]

much as I liked the beauty of the pattern to this system I'm not convinced of its efficacy as a learning system.... we did it by sheer repetition and built up speed over a long time of extended practicing, I never particularly enjoyed learning or using it and was never much good at it.

[@anthonytaylor9232]

R as the merchant navy R/Off. stated in an earlier post. At any kind of speed this system is totally impractical. To see what I mean, just tune in to any of the ham radio morse tutorials that are on youtube and you will see exactly what I mean. Back in the day, TWO solid weeks of 'Pattern Reccognition' - listening to the sounds at approx. 5 wpm. in groups of five characters at a time. At the end of that fortnight - all of the basics were in place, then it was hard hard slog, slowly building up speed to a basic pass-out speed of 18 wpm. From that point, very much down to the individual and how hard they want to push themselves - my tops was 32 wpm , or there abouts. After that speed my ears just are not capable of distinguishing the differences! A truism - ONCE THE 'PATTERNS' are LEARNED - NEVER FORGOTTEN ! didah didadit (AR - end of transmission)

[@spooky3669]

Another confirmation by a fellow telegraphist ! To translate morse code as the description says, you need to listen to the sound / tone of every letter / cipher. Its imposable to do that using this chart (with faults in it) didah didah didah (Anthony I got to 24, after that I could not follow with writing it down (we did not use a keyboard))

[@anthonytaylor9232]

Spookky My 32 was 'making with the wood' as the Yanks used to refer to pencil. They, of course were typing. That facility only came to us (RAF) much later. Can still chew around anywhere between 20 - 25, on a good day! 73's 88's and all of that stuff! Regards Anthony. ps to transmit QSS was always a good way to trigger someone! Illegal but very tempting!

[@rblibit]

Brilliant way to look at it! I have been doing Morse Code for over 40 years and I have never seen it displayed like this. I LOVE IT! Thank you!

[@3ggshe11s]

It's like a sentence diagram. I loved diagramming in school. Breaking it down like this is a perfect "cheat sheet" for me. Thank you.

[@goldeneddie]

I think this is brilliant! It's helping me in the same way that seeing Spanish written down helps me to learn Spanish. Because it's so logical and structured and looks small enough to grasp, it's actually also encouraged 3 other friends to start learning. Different people learn in different ways and learning only by audio is difficult for some. I find listening with this map keeps reinforcing the connections between sounds and symbols. Well done mate - I'm in favour of any new idea that encourages more interest in Morse.

[@DRAGONHAWK297]

Thank you! I studied this to help me out with ‘Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes’

[@ValhallaSaint]

Ok I think I got it, dashes are short and dots are long or longs are short and dots are dashes. I know when The Terrorists capture me I'm going to wish I memorized this chart instead of fucking around in the comment section.

[@diegomorales1930]

Perspective Engaged no dashes are long and dots are short

[@ninacutkosky6886]

Perspective Engaged dots are short

[@aby4043]

do you know that that guy is joking!

[@BLAngel1]

My favorite bit of historical trivia is the connection between Roman numerals, Morse code, and Beethovens 5th Symphony.

[@KB4QAA]

I've been a ham for nearly forty years and have never seen it broken down this way. Thanks!

[@spooky3669]

Thanks ??? As a 40 year HAMmer didn't you see the 3 faults in his chart ? Its probably Not his chart (he has no clue whatsoever about morse code) just copied it with the faults Not double checking it to make a useless video out of it. Useless in the sense that you can Not translate morse code with this chart by Hearing it. as mentioned in the title.

[@Xgil2Play]

Using a binary tree to teach Morse Code, that's wild. Thank you.

[@Determinationism]

Wow This is just amazing, I have wanted to learn morse code for so long I thought it would be a huge thing, I thought I had to find a book and that it woul be as hard as learning another language.I copied your chart and listened to one more video and OMG I learned it in a few minutes. Thank you so much for this information. :)

[@jonathanerno8810]

Came here because of a video found here on YT about the TITANIC's CQD message after hitting the berg.

[@marcikeesler6060]

I'm a brand-newbie to Morse Code. This has just clarified things so much! Thank you! :)

[@tulenik71]

Clarified nothing. There is no relation between position of the character in alphabet and its encoding here (opposite to ASCII, EBCDIC, Unicode, whatever). You must be trained to catch the melody, not analyzing the sequence, especially NOT counting "dots" and "dashes". Better than that is to learn dit and dah sequences but no counting, no writing and deciphering. Pure reflexes. (Basically army did that at least here on the other side of Iron Curtain many years ago. Now it is called Koch method.)

[@GaryLaaks1]

I am a 3rd generation Radio Ham. My dad could rattle it out over 60 wpm while mobile and driving the family. Great memories. Tks for this illustration. Never seen it before.

[@nonsocchi]

this is so awesome!!! this should be on all sites that teach people morse code. pure genius mate!!!

[@MrPijus123]

Learn it as sounds, not as symbols. A lot more convenient to be able to hear letters without having to refer to a memorized chart

[@la7dfa]

When I learned morse, we started with groups with similar sounding letters, like AUV4, NDB6, TMO0, EISH5 etc. This will make it easier to separate similar sounding letters later. As soon as you can, you should focus on the sound of the letters, not how they look on paper. That is the only way you can learn fast CW. While learning, it can be best to crank up the speed, and have longer pause between letters and words. Then you can focus on the sound, and not count dots and dashes. Idealy you should hear a sound, and your brain instantly decipher it to letter or number "X". With even more training, you should start decoding some common words, faster than you can decode the individual letters.

[@matthewhawkins106]

Excellent way of learning the code. However, you still need to commit to memory after doing it a few thousand times.

[@spooky3669]

No it is Not the Excellent way of learning the code Matthew

[@johnzimmerman3021]

"SOS" is not sent by sending the three letters individually - it is sent by running the letters all together: "Di-di-di-daw-daw-daw-di-di-dit", but we get the idea.

[@wa9neu]

This is a VERY good Presentation of how to learn Morse! I got my Novice licence back in 1965 (am an Extra Class Now). I had my speed up to 20 wpm or better but never tested at FCC for the Extra. Later CW (or Morse) was dropped as a requirement. But Morse code is NOT dead on the Ham radio bands. still my favorite mode of operation. I Urge you to learn it.!! 73 de WA9NEU in Cave In Rock Illinois.... k

[@hyliedoobius5114]

walt bowlby FB OM

[@TriStarArchive]

How funny. I was interested in learning morse code, and enjoy bushcraft. First video I find on Morse code is by a bushcrafter.

[@PoormansBushcraft]

+Team Tri-Star Stuff thank you and hope you enjoy my channel

[@keeganshawn7673]

+Poormans Bushcraft I'm confused on how you get the dots and dashes

[@keeganshawn7673]

+Poormans Bushcraft oh wait I get it

[@Alexfrom863]

Team Tri-Star Stuff lol

[@dougtaylor7724]

Never saw that chart before. Simply brilliant

[@banoffee2691]

I'm actually surprised by how simple this is. Thanks.

[@steveoconnor1527]

My military experience was 8 weeks of intense training to learn MC. Two guys in the class had to be removed as they went a little crazy. You do learn to hear segments of sound that identify quickly. Your mind and hand will continue to process for seconds after the code has stopped. It is quite amazing.

[@ludditeneaderthal]

that flow chart is pretty damned impressive!

[@Chelsea-gt9hd]

Thanks! This video was actually helpful! I've never seen it written like this

[@christophercooper6731]

He's a rackeroony rebel from a head to toe, he's a gatta keep a rackin' ev'ry where he goes

[@fatalexception1269]

cool, i might be able to figure out these silly Battlefield 1 puzzles now.

[@yourlocalpeeps4145]

I've been interested into knowing morse codes lately, thanks for this.

[@mnpd3]

Back in the 1970's I had to be able to copy 5 wpm in order to get my Novice license. I dedicated a full 8-hour day to the task. The next day I passed the exam.

[@JanetWilliams01]

Hi y'all. KA4LSK here. CQ CQ... Wow, terrific breakdown! Ingenious! I'd like to flip this horizontally, though, so that the dits come on the left side of the dahs throughout. Therefore, the 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 etc would end up on the left and the 6, 7, 8, 9, and 0 would end up on the right. Makes more sense to me that way. LOVE THIS!

[@MistSGM]

The morse code for SOS is actually a ringtone for old Nokia...

[@gaminawulfsdottir3253]

You neglect to point out that the way your branching diagram works is: as you go down the tree, a branch to the left is a dash and a branch to the right is a dot. Even once you figure this out... how is it any quicker or easier to memorize this scrambled-looking tree than it is simply to memorize the dots and dashes along with the alphabet? This makes sense or seems ingenious only if you already know how to do it. (And do I have to mention the noise in the background?)

[@RightToSelfDefense]

I studied the Morse code 30 years ago and I never saw it shown in a tree structure like this.

[@bsul03420]

Excellent - I've never seen it depicted like this before : it's so logical!

[@dminter1234]

speed keys can send at around 60 wpm, but you have to record it and slow it down to translate. No one can freely translate morse code that fast in their head. When I was a radio operator in the Coast Guard, the top speed for most operators was around 25 wpm copy speed.

[@TheRunereaper]

I worked on ships all my life and it was common knowledge that the sparkies were all stark raving mad! I knew one who, when he got bored, played chess with his mate on the other side of the world. Thanks for an interesting post.

[@tarynmichelleart]

I don't know why but I love this guy

[@kalemercer7053]

This is ingenus, this should be taught in school!

[@Keyboardje]

I think it's not so difficult to learn the letters and numbers. It's hearing them one after the other, and to distinguish where one ends and the other begins that I find challenging.

[@anorwood72]

I only came here because of Will Byers in Stranger Things

[@kahkashan13]

Aubri Rayne me too

[@АндрейДенисюк-ш7п]

Dead end approach. Any way of visualization is a real anchor in learning morse.

[@juans6639]

I learned it the old fashioned way but it's been 55 years since I used it when I was a sophomore in High School. LOL

[@akheelpasha818]

nokia phones used to have one particular message tune. now i know what it said.

[@ytsm]

Hearing the SOS Morse reminds me of my very first Nokia mobile in 1997.

[@CZghost]

This looks very much like a binary tree. And it IS a binary tree. So not only that it's very convenient cheatsheet to translate morse code, it's also a very convenient cheatsheet to program a translation machine. Thanks :)

[@412iii3]

Why do i remember very well hearing SOS from somewhere in my past.. thats weird

[@goldeneddie]

I get the same thing!

[@Janovaxe]

this is super helpful I never thought it was this easy

[@christopherkarpinski424]

Oh my gosh, this made it so much easier

[@ItsDiesL]

What if someone blinks with his eyes the letters? how do I read or do it?

[@dikhan-thealternativekripp9072]

You'll have to ask Rick and Daryl these questions

[@yan-xc7xd]

DiesL Funny. That's exactly the reason why im here tryin to learn this

[@ItsDiesL]

Lmao

[@oggabob]

If they blink quickly, it's a dot, if they blink for a second or more, it's a dash

[@ItsDiesL]

Me and my friend try to contact in school with blinking morse code tho

[@samusaron5000]

Wow, didn't expect this when I clicked on the video this tree is alot better that a normal chart or list.

[@johnemery587]

VFR charts list the morse code for VOR stations. Pilots still have a hard time determining the code when they tune in. Great video.

[@sopwithpuppy]

Thank you very much. I have only ever seen the table laid out a, b, c etc. That is an interesting way of looking at it. +1

[@xleshens1385]

The reason I wanna learn Morse code is because I feel like it's a 2nd version of sign language but with only beeps, so thats why I wanna learn

[@sansplayzandreacts8708]

this was extremely useful thank you

[@nappingpup105]

An interesting way to look at the construction of letters and number in morse code. I was self taught, a long time ago. Don't remember that ARRL offered a structured approach. This looks like a real simple (hand made) chart that could be very useful in helping newcomers, as well as on old timer, here. Thanks for posting.

[@MOOSEDOWNUNDER]

Excellent mate.

[@55Quirll]

Thank you for an informative and easy way to learn Morse code - perhaps you can use this to talk to your friends and drive the cops up the wall, you can also use this to help you construct your own type of code to use among your family and friends.

[@jasoncohen5297]

love the Turkey caller bro

[@trihardcmonbruh9016]

Morse code is easy when you have a sheet in front of you. But when you don't it's difficult because it's just memory. I'm sure after a while it would be easy to remember.

[@MarcsVlogVids]

When I was a kid, I had a set of walkie talkies with the Morse code in alphabet order. It was nearly impossible to use or remember. I like this layout, because it's like a Ouija board.

[@Vedranation]

Hurray! I can cheat on tests without the teacher knowing!

[@laneburgess1643]

Excellent video.

[@rrurban]

I'm going to tattoo this to my inner forearm

[@ny1t]

This is fine if you just intend to occasionally decode or send a message at 5 words per minute. This method is the similar to describing how to draw a letter. People that learn in this way will hear the code and translate it. This is a slow process and useless at even as slow at 10 WPM. The person hears dah-dit-dit-dit, they mentally translate it dah-dit-dit-dit B. It is similar to hearing "Perro" and mentally thinking perro dog. When you hear dog, you brain knows the word without translation. Knowing Spanish you hear "perro" and your mind does the same as if someone said dog, without translating. Elmers try to discourage people wanting to learn Morse code this way. It is the main reason people have trouble reaching 20 WPM. Learning using a translate method requires you to relearn without translating. Morse code is a language like English or French. You have to learn the sounds, preferably words at a high speed. You don't learn a word as a string of letters, you learn the sound of the letters combined to form a word. People translating will have blocks as they try to increase their speeds. They do even better if they learn words. As you develop the skills you will hear complete words. Words like "been" or "Jose" are good examples. You can hear the rhythm of the word and see how a word is a definite sound. I recognize my callsign even when I think I am not paying attention. morsecode.scphillips.com/translator.html Under advanced controls set speed and Farnsworth to 30 wpm Enter a word such as jose where it says input. click translate, then click play. Adjust the pitch to your liking. The Farnsworth method allows you to learn words and letters at a high speed but increases the spaces in between the letters.

[@rickvia8435]

Never, EVER seen it charted out that way. GOOD WORK..! Only thing is the "Dots & Dashes" thing; It's ALWAYS "dits & Dahs". Thumbs Up...

[@shannonbear8807]

if its a long beep : dash , short beep : dot . got it, now i should memorize the equivalents of each letter and number ... nice vid !!

[@kulturfreund6631]

Now, what is the difference in sound between X and B or J and P ? It´s also necessary to make dots and dashes more distinguishable one to another. These are all dashes to me and they´re drawn of about three different lenghts. Get a ruler and make it accurate. This is slovenly.

[@spooky3669]

X " daa di di daa " B " daa di di di " J " di daa daa daa " P " di daa daa di " Not to mention the mistakes he made in his chart !

[@kh23797]

kulturfreund66... Actually, this works fine for me. But, hey, why don't _you_ show us all exactly how it should be done, old chap? I'm sure, in an effort to demonstrate your punctilious attention to detail, you would go to great "lenghts" to make it faultless.

[@kulturfreund6631]

I see my job here on KZbin in producing valuable comments, giving indications and reminders, reasoned appraisals, reviews and critiques, not in producing videos, I´m not equiped for. This chart and the instructions aren´t a good guidance and Poormans Bushcraft knew about his insufficiencies, therefore he said excusing himself right beforehand "I don´t want to get too deep into this."

[@RedPillRecording]

What mistake did he make in his chart?

[@kulturfreund6631]

My initial comment tells you.

[@dhy5342]

Great learning aid … if the transmission is at one character every three seconds. With the average word being five characters, try using this chart when the transmission is a 20 words per minute (one character every 0.6 seconds).

[@nsixvl]

If you want to attain any copy speed, visual charts get in the way big time. Code is best learned by sound or rhythm like music. This chart will cripple your copy speed in the long term. All the code copy instructors advice against visualization. Yes there are still Morse Code schools. I know of two.

[@outfield243]

This is actually helpful

[@ga3872]

Wow I never knew it was this simple

[@dondurham211]

The reason all the HAM radio operators you mentioned are as much faster as you described is because they learn it as an auditory skill by (primarily) listening to it, rather than as a visual skill by looking at a chart. Don't get me wrong, the chart is neat as an explaining tool. However, it would be important for anyone actually interested in learning morse code at a functional level not to confuse that with it being a learning tool.

[@unfamousk4y]

I'm a nerd but If I want to acconplish my goals in life I need ALOT more than just straight A's. So I'm here to learn morse code, one of the many things I'm multitasking to have a chance on my dream proffesion( *S* ) .

[@horusfalcon]

Elegant! Thanks for sharing that.

[@Liberty4Ever]

The binary tree is a great way for people who don't know Morse code to quickly decipher short messages (scanning the entire alphabet looking for the code you just heard is stupid) but this is not a good way to learn Morse code. Learning needs to establish a direct mental link between the sound and the character. Visual tricks may help you quickly learn to copy 2 words per minute but you'll need to unlearn that visual crutch to move beyond 5 wpm.

[@rrcaniglia]

WOW! Thanks.

[@jacobstephens7315]

imagine teaching someone to use morse code by only using morse code

[@hansoak3664]

Very helpful. Thanks.

[@royeb63]

Fun fact: When you set old Nokia phones to "long and strong" signal for messages it was actually Morse code-ing "connectin people". :O) The shorter message signal was a simple "SMS" in Morse code.

[@peterking2651]

Does anyone still use morse code? I know signalers that are trained in it, but have never used it. Maybe naval vessels?

[@spooky3669]

www.engineering.com/DesignerEdge/DesignerEdgeArticles/ArticleID/15283/Why-the-Navy-Sees-Morse-Code-as-the-Future-of-Communication.aspx Its also still used by HAMmers

[@ordohereticus5530]

I'm here for the peacekeeper in BF1.

[@jjoha2184]

It really helps a lot tbh

[@jesperbjorn9867]

God bless you. Thanks for your knowledge.

[@Ninjanugets123]

its still pretty hard to remember all the letters orientation in terms of left or right though

[@michaelhovensyversen3662]

Thanks for the lesson. I actually understood it

[@MortgageExpert4U]

Thank you. I actually learned a new skill.

[@swordfishgamer8291]

than you soo much you are very helpful to me and many others

[@dfailsthemost]

I'm probably just slow but how would you determine one of the letters towards the middle of the tree?

[@dfailsthemost]

Disregard. Got it. Took me a second to grasp the left right distinction applying to each level. thank you very much for posting.

[@operationhotshotinc.6887]

That’s what I’m wondering

[@aaronjaben7913]

Abel...just follow the tree and stop at the desired letter. if it branches to the left it's a dash, to the right a dot

[@Oates737]

Great video! I learned morse code in five mins (with the exception of it being simple)! thanks!

[@kelvin31272]

THIS IS AMAZING thanks for helping with my homework lol

[@christiancampbell3523]

my daughter thanks you simple and complete understanding.

[@PoormansBushcraft]

She is very welcome and thank you both for watching my video