About this site

FreeMorseCodeTranslator started as a single question: why do most online morse converters bury the actual conversion box under three paragraphs of ad copy? The tool at the top of the homepage is the whole point of the site. Type or paste, click a button, get an answer. Everything else on the site, the alphabet chart, the timing math, the history notes, exists to answer the follow-up questions people have after they get that answer.

The reference material is built to the ITU-R M.1677-1 International Morse Code standard, which is the same table hams, aviation beacons, and the SOS distress signal all trace back to. Where the site makes a judgment call, like treating a curly quote as unrecognized rather than guessing at it, that choice is explained on the page it affects rather than buried in fine print.

Technical and reference content on this site is written and maintained by Marcus Vance. You can read more about his background on the authors page, and how corrections and sourcing are handled on the editorial standards page.

The site is owned by Chris Terry and published under Encore Editorial, a small network of independent reference and calculator tools. Encore does not sell the data you type into this converter, because none of it leaves your device in the first place; see the privacy policy for the specifics.

Found a table entry that looks wrong, or a guide that is missing a case you ran into? The contact page has an address that a person actually reads.