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Ebook2CW Tutorial
For converting text to CW in an MP3 file.
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Відео

Build the No-Stick Buddy-Stick AntennaBuild the No-Stick Buddy-Stick Antenna
Build the No-Stick Buddy-Stick Antenna
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Build a portable, multi-band, resonant, vertical antenna for ham radio One more tip: The coil wire must be secured on each end to keep it tightly wound. This can be done with a knot or a couple of holes in the PVC or both.
Morse Code if I Could Start Over AgainMorse Code if I Could Start Over Again
Morse Code if I Could Start Over Again
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If you are beginning to learn Code, this is a reflection on "how I wish I had done it." PS: The "Morse Mail" App is now called "Morse Email."

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  • @mariannevanoostenbrugge3541
    @mariannevanoostenbrugge3541 13 днів тому

    this is really of great help , in learning, and understanding the learning process,

  • @rinzler9775
    @rinzler9775 14 днів тому

    The youtube algorithm has decided I need to learn morse code.

  • @sayanpolley5656
    @sayanpolley5656 Місяць тому

    anyone in 2024 ?

  • @cosmicCitizenT_T
    @cosmicCitizenT_T 2 місяці тому

    - .... -. -..- .-.-.-

  • @Steven-u5w
    @Steven-u5w 2 місяці тому

    I started to learn Morse code from a to z and then the numbers 1 to 0 I just let the speed come naturally I still have a daton model D70 and still works! I used to plug in the my morse key I keep a Palm pedal to hand all the time When I learnt Morse many years ago, I should have learnt the alphabet. The I should have learnt the opposites each letter has an opposite eish tmo 73s G0HDA

  • @RobR386
    @RobR386 2 місяці тому

    I had to go back and start again with a purely audio experience, now I amble along at around 18-20 wpm 😊

  • @erik_1953
    @erik_1953 2 місяці тому

    Something I always wanted to know, but were afraid to ask.

  • @GarySchiltz
    @GarySchiltz 3 місяці тому

    Thanks for the advice and encouragement!

  • @the.mr.beacher
    @the.mr.beacher 4 місяці тому

    My people with aphantasia out there, how do you account for #3?

  • @franka7691
    @franka7691 4 місяці тому

    Thanks for posting this. What can you share with us 7 years later? :)

    • @kw4jm699
      @kw4jm699 4 місяці тому

      I'm still at it. I Still love code. My main Ham interest remains portable ops (Summits on the Air) almost exclusively CW. It's like music. I wish I could do 30 but at my age I'm happy with 25. Thanks for asking. I hope you are doing well at it too.

  • @rj2para
    @rj2para 4 місяці тому

    Thank you

  • @RabSea
    @RabSea 4 місяці тому

    When in the Royal Navy, I could not ditch the pencil, as we had to write down the messages to show the command, but awesome idea.

  • @KeystoneInvestigations
    @KeystoneInvestigations 4 місяці тому

    That is pretty stupid advice! Don't throw away that paper with the code characters on it. You first have to learn what dot/dash goes with what letter/number. The you learn the sounds and rhythms.

  • @TengwarTeacher
    @TengwarTeacher 5 місяців тому

    Thank you very much friend! I’m still early on in my cw learning and I’m planning on implementing these ideas.

  • @hughpatterson1480
    @hughpatterson1480 5 місяців тому

    Thank you. I was about to start learning morse code and would have done it wrong if I had not found this video...73...KN6KNB

  • @GCharlton56
    @GCharlton56 5 місяців тому

    Thanks, very much for this video. That writing plateau is real and I'll be re-looking my own practice. Thanks again.

  • @jcp3a573
    @jcp3a573 5 місяців тому

    Thank you for this video, I learned a few new things, some of the others I already learned but the hard way as you did. I started with a PC computer at 5WPM, real 5WPM and progressed up to 10WPM where I got stuck for months. I gave up for some time and restarted the same way and got stuck again at 10WPM until I discovered Koch-Farnsworth with 20WPM letters. Point 1: I knew about forgetting about the visual but when you start at real 5WPM you clearly hear the dits and dahs and it is very difficult for your brain not to hear them even if you are not counting. You don't hera the letters. When you reach 10WPM your brain get lost as it does not hear the dits and dahs. Point 2: With letters at 20-25WPM you learn to hear the letters which makes it easier to shorten the spacing. It is when I started to make rapid progress. Point 3: I always tried to avoid pencil and as you said at some point you cannot write and copy at the same time. Point 4: This is a new one for me and will have to try it. I knew that being a good operator means hearing words not letters. I can regonize a few of them but until now I did not know how to do it. Point 5: This is also a new one for me. Right now my QSOs are relatively short for this reason. No rag chew at this time. When you are really good at CW: I met this ham and we were talking while he was making rag chew QSOs at 30WPM. Unbelievable!

  • @Gronicle1
    @Gronicle1 5 місяців тому

    Thanks. I am a new technican and will try and follow your advise to learn CW.

  • @pyt22fr11
    @pyt22fr11 7 місяців тому

    Thanks for the excellent advice, I fully agree with those recommendations. I am learning for over 5 months now according to these points and, slowly but truly, I do progress. This is an excellent way to go and study, may you be heard.

  • @SuburbanDon
    @SuburbanDon 7 місяців тому

    This is pretty good advice. I learned the letters fairy quickly but i never got past 15 wpm because i still visualize some letters in my head. Not good.

  • @eugenecbell
    @eugenecbell 8 місяців тому

    Great advice. Thank you for this information.

  • @billuno
    @billuno 8 місяців тому

    Thank you

  • @Anvilshock
    @Anvilshock 8 місяців тому

    And to exactly nobody's surprise, the Anglophone has absolutely no qualms about not only not pronouncing Koch correctly but also not bothering to find out whether there could be anything wrong with his pronunciation. Koch is a German name. And not just that; it is the German name of a German person. Funny double-standard you have. You say the whole letter in Morse is a sound, even a word is a sound, and ought to be trained as such, not a series of individual short and long noises to reassemble in your head, like the individual strokes on paper that make up letters and words. Funny how that somehow doesn't apply to a name and its sound, and not just any name and its sound but the name and its sound that identifies a particular person. How is that?

    • @kw4jm699
      @kw4jm699 8 місяців тому

      Haha-thanks for that. I feel your pain. I backpack so I watch a lot of backpacking videos and it galls the heck out of me when people say "Appa-lay-chin" instead of the correct "Appa-latch-in." So I get it.

    • @stampdealer
      @stampdealer 7 місяців тому

      You seem pleasant. Also, I'm old enough to remember NYC Mayor Ed Koch who pronounced his surname as "Kotch". So maybe lighten up a notch or two, Officer Pronunciation.

    • @Anvilshock
      @Anvilshock 7 місяців тому

      @@stampdealer Nothing wrong with that because it was _that US American NYC Mayor Ed Koch person's_ name, while my remark referred to the _German Dipl. Ing. Ludwig Koch person's_ name. Yes, the pronunciation matters. Try telling an English Robert, a French Robert, and a German Robert apart with only that drawl of yours. Had you read properly what I originally said, you'd have known the difference before you'd set yourself up for failing in trying to outsmart me. Better luck next time.

    • @stampdealer
      @stampdealer 7 місяців тому

      @@Anvilshock You're on the spectrum, aren't you? Anyway, pronunciation doesn't matter to Ludwig, he's dead. 73!

  • @wyominglife3202
    @wyominglife3202 8 місяців тому

    Great advice. Thanks!

  • @TiredCitizen
    @TiredCitizen 8 місяців тому

    Just interested, nothing special.😅

  • @oldgeezerproductions
    @oldgeezerproductions 9 місяців тому

    It's been a while since this video was produced and I'm not sure if you still monitor it, but I'll comment anyway. First, I found the suggestions interesting and I plan to pursue them if possible. I "learned" my Morse Code in Radioman A school back in 1967 and looking back, the method used there was absolutely the worst, but it was designed for Naval communications with a resulting hard, printed copy. I learned to repeat the dits and dahs in my conscious mind and then type the letter on a typewriter as I heard them. Looking at the text on the typewriter platen (as I received it) would cause me to completely lose my train and miss a whole string of following characters. I barely made it out of RM A school at the minimum required speed and to this day, I am extremely (extremely) poor at receiving MC. Once on active duty they were going to assign me to a CW net, but I begged so earnestly and sincerely for them not to, they (for once) had pity on me. To this day, I can't listen to MC without repeating the dits and dahs in my head and many times long characters causes me to doubt what it was and then let the next five characters go by, completely losing my place in the message. I have to use a keyboard or pencil and I can't look at the copy until after the transmission of the message. Even at my age now, I would love to be proficient enough to use MC and I have a wonderful (unused) CW QRP radio I built from a kit many, many years ago, but I'm afraid my lack of natural talent together with my unbreakable bad training will continue to doom me. As mentioned, I will follow the suggestions in your video, but if you have any specific ones you think might help, I would very much appreciate it.

    • @kw4jm699
      @kw4jm699 9 місяців тому

      Great story - thanks. I gather you are a Ham. I encourage you to do something really easy and fun. Listen for contesters who only want to log your call sign and a signal report (599 usually). You can listen to his call several times until you get it right, then chime in with your call when there is an opening. Don't worry if you muff it and have to send your call several times. They want the contact to be a success too so that they can log it. Yes it's big step up from there to "chat" with CW, but it's fun and confidence building simply to get on the air and trade call signs and signal reports. The big secret is that that's what 90% of CW on the radio is! PS: we are probably the same age. I graduated from high school in '67. Thanks for writing. Scott

    • @oldgeezerproductions
      @oldgeezerproductions 9 місяців тому

      @@kw4jm699Thanks so much for answering my note. I'm a bit older you Scott. I HAD to join the Navy in 1966 to escape from my cruel draft board (not being ready for college out of high school) and so I was older when I went to RM A school. It's a long story about my firm opposition to the killings in Vietnam without claiming to be something I was not, a Conscious Objector. The truth is, I am a "rag chewer" who likes a l o n g QSO where we tell something about ourselves, where we live, what it's like there and maybe even a story. What I'd really like is to be able to maintain a long and informative QSO using the Code. In truth, I absolutely HATE those quickey, exchange call and signal report contacts. I don't know if there is an exercise or SOME method of getting those dots and dashes out on one's brain and just have the letters and/or words "pop up," but perhaps if I (old geezer that I am) haven't got it by now, I never will. Yes, I'm a ham (WA6TLP), been inactive for a long time, but just ordered a multi-band, multi-mode low powered HF radio (G90) and hope to get into doing some mobile and/or portable operation (probably exclusively on SSB, but CW would be great). 73's.

  • @JohnYoga
    @JohnYoga 10 місяців тому

    Farnsworth method is the absolute best way. I was not aware of this method until about 30 years after being in Ham radio.

  • @KF0PBP
    @KF0PBP 10 місяців тому

    Than you for your insights. Very helpful

  • @chasiu75
    @chasiu75 10 місяців тому

    I have a hard time writing down call signs even in English on SSB. I get confused when they say their call sign and the call sign of who they are taking to. Which call sign is the senders and who's is the recipient? Which one is usually said first?

    • @kw4jm699
      @kw4jm699 10 місяців тому

      If you are the sender, it's the listener's call sign first followed by yours, with "de" and a space just before yours.

    • @chasiu75
      @chasiu75 10 місяців тому

      @@kw4jm699 Thanks!

  • @bill-2018
    @bill-2018 11 місяців тому

    I learned at 6 w.p.m. and worked up to probably 15 w.p.m. in 12 weeks for my test at 12 w.p.m. Passed first time. When learning I used a pencil so I could check with the text afterwards. As speed increased I discarded the pencil as I couldn't write fast enough. Listening on air is good too as I did because at some time you will need to listen through QRM, fading and other noises and it helps you to understand the make up of a typical QSO. Words do come over: the, and, they, and so on. Head copy was another stage. Now happy at 18 to 20 w.p.m. and can push 25 reasonably well and some at 30 w.p.m. My question is whether the Koch-Farnsworth method is faster? Could I have learned it in 6 weeks? Not that it matters, I was quite happy with what I did. G4GHB.

    • @kw4jm699
      @kw4jm699 11 місяців тому

      KF would not be faster. Well done.

    • @bill-2018
      @bill-2018 11 місяців тому

      @@kw4jm699 O.K.

  • @Redbelly357
    @Redbelly357 Рік тому

    The rest of us learned before computers, phones and aps.

  • @johnnyv.223
    @johnnyv.223 Рік тому

    Thank you so much. Great advice! 73 de NM5T

  • @rsedaker
    @rsedaker Рік тому

    Great video! Thank you! I. Am starting my very first step today and I am really quite intimidated. I found this helpful

  • @xq6cs726
    @xq6cs726 Рік тому

    Excelente idea para probar algo "practico", se ve entretenido, lo hare apenas pasen las lluvias en este hemisferio. 73 y buenos dx.

  • @FRANCISTANYA-c1t
    @FRANCISTANYA-c1t Рік тому

    so lets say i want to be stabbed with a banana as the template scary phrase I simply take that phrase and make recordings of it in different numbers 1 for a or 16 time in a row once so we dont mistake it for the bad suprising one.. then when i finally have a 26 for z and a 36 for 9 or 10 i can noww accociate these numbers to be converted to morse code.. then i re english the message.. no more fear.

  • @FRANCISTANYA-c1t
    @FRANCISTANYA-c1t Рік тому

    A project that im authoring is to take all scary phrases and make them at least 16 times in a row made into a spelling version of dashes and dots for example ffoorr eexxaammppllee then i work a way to make the thoughts into a morse code imitation of the same message then i convert it back to english

  • @HogRebel
    @HogRebel Рік тому

    Thank you! 73 de KG5JAW! 😎👍

  • @davidjewett5758
    @davidjewett5758 Рік тому

    With all due respect, I believe you're overthinking it. I agree that learning words is a good tactic to raise up your speed (although I've personally never tried it). Otherwise, the best way is to practice, practice, practice, putting down your received characters on a keyboard (you're right about using a pencil - you can't go fast enough). In Tech school, we had a fellow student who could only type at 15WPM, but could copy code at 30WPM. This disparity was actually quite common. One other thing ... CW operators today are accustomed to clean code. But what do you do when you're copy someone who's sending garbage? How do you copy such an operator? (Hint: you know what he's gonna send it before he does). The answer is more and more practice. Good luck!

  • @EmyN
    @EmyN Рік тому

    Thanks for the tips!

  • @greasylox5767
    @greasylox5767 Рік тому

    I like the mag loop in the background, great birdies too....

  • @reedreamer9518
    @reedreamer9518 Рік тому

    That was my big mistake, I visualize and then convert the image in my brain to symbols, and for this I can't get past 10 wpm. But how do I reverse this?

  • @DKD81
    @DKD81 Рік тому

    Thank you for your advice. Very good suggestions here.

  • @leericelli_w8rnb202
    @leericelli_w8rnb202 Рік тому

    Very nice video. I would only add that Practice makes improvement, so practice practice practice and remember nobody is perfect.

  • @nunyabiznes33
    @nunyabiznes33 Рік тому

    How do you transition to see morse flash? Reason I wanted to learn Morse is to send messages by flashlight, say for example during emergencies, etc.

    • @bill-2018
      @bill-2018 11 місяців тому

      Just do it, learn it. I have a very old brass key I bought on a wooden base with an audio transformer with a 4 pin valve as an oscillator and a torch light bulb socket for practice. G4GHB.

  • @김명환-d9m
    @김명환-d9m Рік тому

    satellite phone

  • @waiyipsin2377
    @waiyipsin2377 Рік тому

    👍👍👍

  • @Sandman.68.
    @Sandman.68. Рік тому

    Perfect timing mate!! Thank you ! 👌 I'm just bout to start 👌👌👌👍👍👍😁😁😁

  • @VK4QC
    @VK4QC Рік тому

    I agree it should be audio and not visual but - Why lose the pencil? If you're a radio operator, you need to WRITE the messages down so you can then pass them to a third party! Of course if you're only gonna learn 5NN TU 73 QRZ? then lose the pencil!

    • @kw4jm699
      @kw4jm699 Рік тому

      haha - I get it abt the 5nn! it depends on what you want. My goal was to be conversant, to hear in a relaxed way the same as you hear a friend speak to you, rather than to take letter by letter dictation. I listen to news articles and even books to achieve that. But you're right, you don't have to look at it that way.

  • @barndweller4573
    @barndweller4573 Рік тому

    Thank You That app works pretty good. I started out over 43 years ago in Amateur Radio as a Novice. I struggled with the code. Now I have hearing aids that I can feed the audio in directly and I can hear so much more than I ever did. I am going to take another swing at CW. Its amazing its coming back to me. Thank You for your video! DE K8OCN

  • @WestCoastMole
    @WestCoastMole Рік тому

    I don't agree with the "lose the pencil" point. Yes writing fast is not easy but not a limiting factor up to about 20 WPM. In fact the FCC Administered Code Tests up to 1980 by examining the text of the testee. This included the Extra Class grade CW test. If you couldn't write it down you couldn't pass.

    • @scottcarter9975
      @scottcarter9975 Рік тому

      Hello Bob. See my exchange with Peter VK4QC a few days after yours. Thx fer commenting!