Telegram
Greetings
- Message
- HELLO
- In Morse code
- .... . .-.. .-.. ---
- Characters
- 5
- Dots
- 11
- Dashes
- 5
- At 20 WPM
- 2.9s
Words in Morse · Greetings
Hello in Morse code
Hello in Morse code is ···· · ·−·· ·−·· −−−. It is 5 characters made of 11 dots and 5 dashes, and takes about 2.9 seconds to send at 20 words per minute.
Hello · Greetings
dot dot dot dot break dot break dot dash dot dot break dot dash dot dot break dash dash dash
Length ~2.9s
Why Hello is worth knowing
HELLO makes a poor first message and a good first exercise. It puts E, the single dot, in the same word as H and L, which sit on the deepest layer of the Morse tree — the shortest and longest characters in the alphabet, back to back. Operators greeting each other on the air do not send it at all; they send CQ.
Hello letter by letter
Each key is one character, sent with a short silence between them. Open any key to hear it on its own.
You can send Hello yourself by day 5 of the seven-day plan: that is when the last of its letters is taught.
Common questions
- What is Hello in Morse code?
- Hello in Morse code is ".... . .-.. .-.. ---". HELLO makes a poor first message and a good first exercise. It puts E, the single dot, in the same word as H and L, which sit on the deepest layer of the Morse tree — the shortest and longest characters in the alphabet, back to back. Operators greeting each other on the air do not send it at all; they send CQ.
- How long does it take to send Hello in Morse code?
- At 20 words per minute, Hello takes about 2.9 seconds to send. That counts its 11 dots and 5 dashes plus the silences between them, timed by the PARIS standard, in which one unit, the length of a dot, is 60 milliseconds at that speed.