·· / ·− −− / ···· · ·−· ·
"I Am Here" in Morse code is ·· / ·− −− / ···· · ·−· ·.
Leave a short gap between letters and a longer gap between words. In writing, letters are separated by a space and words by a slash. At standard timing a dot lasts one unit, a dash three units, the gap inside a letter one unit, the gap between letters three units and the gap between words seven. "I Am Here" takes 57 units, about 3.4 seconds at a speed of 20 words per minute.
Meaning: Morse code for "I Am Here" (phrase)
What does it mean word for word?
Letter by letter: I is ··, A is ·−, M is −−, H is ····, E is · and R is ·−·.
How do you pronounce it?
di-dit / di-dah dah-dah / di-di-di-dit dit di-dah-dit dit
What mistakes should you avoid?
Keep the gaps between letters. Without them, I ·· can be read as E and E · ·, which changes the message.
Did you know?
- In 1966 the American prisoner of war Jeremiah Denton blinked T-O-R-T-U-R-E in Morse code with his eyes during a filmed interview.
- The first long-distance telegraph message in the United States, sent from Washington to Baltimore on 24 May 1844, read "What hath God wrought".
