It's actually quite simple. I always thought it was difficult and you'd have to learn from a code sheet, but I found an app which teaches you and you actually just recognise the sounds like you'd recognise any other sound. You generally don't even need to decode it- you just get used to what a letter sounds like. I've been learning since Saturday and can already key my name out.

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[–] 7 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I only ever knew "SOS". Learned it in Cub Scouts.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 11 months ago

    Apparently SOS isn't actually the distress call. •••---••• just means a distress call, SOS is how people remember it. The difference between the distress call and SOS is that SOS would have a short pause to denote the beginning of s new letter, the distress call wouldn't.

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