“HAPPY NEW YEAR” in Morse Code

HNY in amateur shorthand. At midnight on New Year’s Eve, CW operators around the world exchange this greeting as the year changes across time zones — a rolling wave of dots and dashes that circles the planet for 24 hours.

Letter by letter

The timing that makes it Morse: a dash lasts exactly three dots. The gap inside a letter is one dot long, the gap between letters is three, and the slash marks a seven-unit word gap. Want to hear it slower or flash it as light? Open it in the morse code translator.

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