Merry Christmas in Morse Code

Merry Christmas in Morse — A Holiday Tradition with Deep Roots

Christmas has a long association with Morse code. In the early days of radio, amateur operators and professional radio stations would transmit Christmas greetings in CW (Morse code) to ships at sea, remote outposts, and fellow operators around the world. The tradition of the annual Christmas "special event station" — where amateur operators set up temporary stations with festive callsigns and transmit holiday greetings — continues today in countries around the world.

One of the most famous early broadcasts in history, Reginald Fessenden's December 24, 1906 radio transmission — widely considered the first voice and music broadcast — was preceded by weeks of promotional Morse code messages to ships' radio operators announcing the upcoming event.

"Merry Christmas" in Morse is fifteen letters across two words. The phrase contains several common Morse characters in context: M (two dashes) appears twice, R (dot-dash-dot) appears three times, and S (three dots) appears once in CHRISTMAS. The variety makes it a good phrase for practiced Morse copy.

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