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We had our major project evaluation yesterday and now there are no classes to attend too. Lot of time to kill :D. So keep thinking of new stuff to keep me busy. The other day I was writing my name in different languages. Then was wondering how it would be in morse code. So I just googled it. Below the images, there were a few links to some tutorial sites.

So I decide to learn Morse Code! Morse code is not a language, just an encoding technique to represent the alphabet. Every character is represented as a combination of dots (dit) and dashes (dah). It was developed by Samuel Morse for electric telegraph; and was later used for different purposes like radio communication. You must have noticed the google home page a couple of days back. It had 'google' written in morse code marking Samuel Morse's birthday.

The popular nokia sms tone is actually the morse code for "SMS": dit-dit-dit dah-dah dit-dit-dit.

There are a few good sites with good tutorials like this one. You can also try the softwares on the net. Most of them use the Koch method of training, where you would be practicing with 2 letters in the beginning, untill you reach the max speed you want with 90% proficiency, and as you improve your accuracy, you can increase the number of letters.

Softwares: G4fon Trainer, Ham university

Happy morse coding!