Telegram
History
- Message
- TELEGRAPH
- In Morse code
- - . .-.. . --. .-. .- .--. ....
- Characters
- 9
- Dots
- 15
- Dashes
- 8
- At 20 WPM
- 4.6s
Words in Morse · History
Telegraph in Morse code
Telegraph in Morse code is − · ·−·· · −−· ·−· ·− ·−−· ····. It is 9 characters made of 15 dots and 8 dashes, and takes about 4.6 seconds to send at 20 words per minute.
Telegraph · History
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Length ~4.6s
Why Telegraph is worth knowing
Nine letters, and one of the longest words worth practising as a single unit. The telegraph is why the code exists at all: a single wire could carry only on and off, so the alphabet had to be encoded in the length of those two states rather than in their shape.
Telegraph 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 Telegraph yourself by day 5 of the seven-day plan: that is when the last of its letters is taught.
Common questions
- What is Telegraph in Morse code?
- Telegraph in Morse code is "- . .-.. . --. .-. .- .--. ....". Nine letters, and one of the longest words worth practising as a single unit. The telegraph is why the code exists at all: a single wire could carry only on and off, so the alphabet had to be encoded in the length of those two states rather than in their shape.
- How long does it take to send Telegraph in Morse code?
- At 20 words per minute, Telegraph takes about 4.6 seconds to send. That counts its 15 dots and 8 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.