As anyone with even a smattering of Morse knows counting dots and dashes essentially gets you nowhere. Morse is about the rhythm of the sound, each character ha

As anyone with even a smattering of Morse knows counting dots and dashes essentially gets you nowhere. Morse is about the rhythm of the sound, each character has a unique rhythmic and ultimately recognizable sound. (One only makes progress when one stops hearing individual dots and dashes of a character.)