Morse Mnemonics

[SHUG]

I know Morse Code isn't used much these days but I came across this yellowing piece of paper with the code laid out on the letters of the alphabet. Hope you can make it out.
Are there other mnemonics like this? (.... and is anybody remotely interested!!)

 

[VicS]

That's how I used to remember the morse code, or at least a good bit of it.

 

[maxi]

Never seen that one before although we had to use morse in earnest at sea - that is before someone invented VHF, even if they did have valves inside.

 

[MoodySabre]

I never learnt morse but I liked this

 

[Skylark]

I haven't struck a key for a long time but I hope it's a bit like riding a bike........

I was taught using this sequence

eish tmo
auv
ndb and so on.

Seemed a fairly logical approach at the time.

 

[Dave_Seager]

I remember reading in someone's wartime biography, possibly Jimmy Edwards, that they learned using a word for each letter. "Linoleum" for "L", ".-..", having four syllables with the stress on the second etc.. However, he said that this approach worked in the early stages but held him back when trying to work at higher speeds.

 

[john_morris_uk]

I haven't struck a key for a long time but I hope it's a bit like riding a bike........

I was taught using this sequence

eish tmo
auv
ndb and so on.

Seemed a fairly logical approach at the time.

Funny, because when I learned Morse Code I was told NOT to learn the characters by their groups - ie all the dit letters, all the dah letters. I used a course called 'the rhythm method' which sounds more like a way to get pregnant when you are trying not to.

When reading morse by flashing light morse I still have to 'hear' the sound.

I used to be able to hear the morse and read the words in my mind without writing it down, but the skill faded a long time ago now.

 

[SHUG]

I never learnt morse but I liked this

EEEEEK! I don't understand it!!!

 

[MoodySabre]

EEEEEK! I don't understand it!!!

If the line goes right it's a DIT and if it goes left it's a DAH. So...

E=Dit
A=Dit dah
S=Dit Dit Dit
M-Dah Dah
O= Dah dah dah
U=Dit dit dah

Go it

 

[Skylark]

Funny, because when I learned Morse Code I was told NOT to learn the characters by their groups - ie all the dit letters, all the dah letters. I used a course called 'the rhythm method' which sounds more like a way to get pregnant when you are trying not to.

John,

The "eishtmo" method was taught to me in 1981 by a local branch of RSGB. I needed to attain 12 wpm with a straight key for my A licence.

My memory isn't that good but I seem to recall the instructor sending groups of 5 characters progressively adding the next group. Seemed to work just fine. Once the alphabet, numbers and punctuation marks had been learned we moved to receiving full text. To add confusion, once we could receive text (often lines of poetry) we then moved to Q codes with common abbreviations. The last bit, sending, was only done at the end of the course and, by this time, was pretty straight forward.

I still have a morse tutor somewhere in the loft. Do you remember it? Randomly sends groups of 5 characters at any dialed-in speed.

Never dated a good Catholic girl during my mis-spent youth so didn't need to call upon the rhythm method

 

[skyflyer]

i was taught to listen to the overall sound of the group and relate it to the phonetic letter

So Charlie Charlie (-.-.) for C
Fetch a Fireman (.._.) for F
To 'ell with it (.-..) L
God save the Queen (--.-)Q
but forgotten the rest!

 

[Beadle]

I agree.

You have to learn it by the sound, strange thing is that once you have learned you never lose it. Rusty certainly but it quickly comes back.

I still enjoy using Morse although nowadays I use an electronic key which makes life a bit easier.

The thing with morse that people rarely believe is how individual it is. So easy to recognise people by their sending, even when using an electronic key.

The other thing of course is that its so effective in difficult conditions. You can communicate in Morse when voice comms is hopeless, and when using low power too.

I can work up to around 30 wpm but like John I cannot make anything of a light signal - I need the sound. presumably a broke wire somewhere in the brain remnants

 

[SHUG]

To
MoodySabre

_ .... ._ _. _ ._ ...

No, I still don't get it. It's me not you!!! it will never catch on!

 

[SHUG]

Never dated a good Catholic girl during my mis-spent youth so didn't need to call upon the rhythm method

Terrific.. a Morse Code joke with sectarian overtones. Doesn't get much better than this!!

 

[VO5]

I have difficulty in reading sound. I was taught to read flashed morse. But curiously in my head I "hear" the flashes and convert them to a streaming signal....funny thing the human mind...

 

[sticky]

Phonetic Morse

This is how I remember the letters, similar to some suggestions already made:

A ● ▬ Alarm
B ▬ ●●● Barney did it
C ▬ ● ▬ ● Car men cart it
D ▬ ●● Don’t do it
E ● Et (Ate)
F ●● ▬ ● Fit for market
G ▬ ▬ ● Garage it
H ● ● ● Hip Hip Hip
I ● ● In it
J ● ▬ ▬ ▬ Jet car driver
K ▬ ● ▬ Kangaroo
L ● ▬ ● ● Lizard is it
M ▬ ▬ Martyr
N ▬ ● Nark it
O ▬ ▬ ▬ Oh Oh Oh
P ● ▬ ▬ ● Pit pooh poohed it
Q ▬ ▬ ● ▬ Quarter it now
R ● ▬ ● Romeo
S ● ● ● Sympathy
T ▬ Tar
U ● ● ▬ Unison
V ● ● ● ▬ Vehicular
W ● ▬ ▬ Wet mortar
X ▬ ● ● ▬ Exit in car
Y ▬ ● ▬ ▬ Yeoman warder
Z ▬ ▬ ● ● Tsar Tsarina