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The letter I in Morse code is ··.
Send the signals of a letter close together, then pause before the next letter. A dot lasts one unit of time and a dash three, so I takes 3 units to send.
Meaning: Morse code for the letter I (letter)
How do you pronounce it?
di-dit
What mistakes should you avoid?
Do not mix up I ·· with M −−. They are mirror images, with the dots and dashes swapped.
Did you know?
- Alfred Vail, who worked with Samuel Morse, gave the shortest signals to the most common letters. That is why E, the most frequent letter in English, is a single dot.
- In the United States, amateur radio licences stopped requiring a Morse code test in 2007, yet many operators still use it on the air.
