Questions
The things people actually ask about morse, answered properly rather than in one line.
Why this site is small on purpose
Morse is a stable, narrow subject. It would be easy to generate a page for every phrase people search — every name in morse, every short message — and it would produce hundreds of documents each saying one line. The reference page carries those answers instead, which is both more useful and the only version that does not put the domain at risk.
Questions
What is SOS in morse code?
Three dots, three dashes, three dots — ... --- ... — and it is sent as ONE symbol with no gaps between the letters, which is why it is written <SOS> rather than S O S. It was chosen because it is unmistakable and easy to send, not because it stands for anything; "save our souls" was invented afterwards.
How fast is 20 words per minute?
A dit is 1200 divided by the speed in words per minute, so at 20 WPM a dit is 60 milliseconds and a dah is 180. The standard word is PARIS because it is exactly 50 units long, which is what makes words per minute a precise measure of morse rather than an approximate one.
What is Farnsworth spacing?
Sending the characters at full speed while stretching the gaps between them. It exists because learning morse slowly teaches you to count dits, and that habit has to be unlearned before any real speed is possible. Learning the character sounds at 18 WPM with long gaps means never having to relearn them.
Why do some characters come back missing?
Because morse has no code for them. There is no standard morse for an accented letter, a curly apostrophe or an emoji, so anything without a code cannot be sent. This site lists exactly what it had to drop rather than quietly leaving it out, which is what most translators do.
What are prosigns?
Procedural signals: two or three letters run together as one symbol with no gap between them, written like <SK> for end of contact or <BT> for a pause. Some share a code with a punctuation mark — <BT> and the equals sign are both -...- — and only context tells them apart.
Do I need an account?
No. Translating, the practice key, the microphone decoder, the light output and the whole reference all run in your browser with no account and no limit. An account exists for two things: syncing your learning progress, and sending a message to a paired device.
Can I send morse to a physical device?
That is being built. The device half runs over the Leumas fabric — the same layer that talks to every other Leumas device — and the wire protocol lives beside the existing gadget protocol rather than being invented again. Until the hardware is enrolled, this site says so instead of showing a pairing screen that cannot pair.
Does the microphone decoder send my audio anywhere?
No. The tone detection runs in your browser and no audio leaves the page. If you refuse the microphone permission the decoder stays off and does not ask again — a page that re-prompts on every render is one browsers eventually block outright.