Morse code translator

International Morse maps every letter and digit to dits (·) and dahs (−). A dit is one time unit; a dah is three. Inside a letter the gap is one unit; between letters, three; between words, seven (shown here as /). That timing is the PARIS standard — the same one search-and-rescue and amateur radio still use.

Distress is SOS, not “HELP” and not a novel acronym. In Morse that is ··· −−− ···. Repeating it is more useful than composing a sentence nobody will decode under rotor noise. Three whistle blasts and three fires in a triangle are the same idea in other channels.

The Last Manual’s Morse Encoder can flash the rear torch at field speed so two phones can talk without radio. The Morse Decoder uses the camera to read those blinks. Neither belongs in a desktop tab: this site’s Content-Security-Policy and Permissions-Policy do not grant camera, and a browser flashlight does not exist. Install the app for those.