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CQ CQ DE K9AA K9AA K
K9AA DE N9YO N9YO AR
N9YO DE K9AA | GA TNX FER CALL | UR RST 599 599 | NAME JANE JANE QTH NEW YORK, NY | HW? AR N9YO DE K9AA KN
K9AA DE N9YO | GA JANE TNX FB RPT UR RST 579 579 | NAME HR IS TOM TOM QTH ST CHARLES, MO | HW? AR K9AA DE N9YO KN
N9YO DE K9AA | R R TNX FER RPT TOM BT RIG IS YAESU 897 BT PWR 100W ANT IS YAGI BT WX IS SUNNY ES WARM 100F | HW? BK
R R RIG IS FT817 5W ES ANT IS DIPOLE | WX IS WET AND COLD BK
N9YO DE K9AA | MNI TNX INFO ES FB QSO | PSE QSL VIA BURO | 73 ES CUAGN TOM AR N9YO DE K9AA SK
K9AA DE N9YO | FB JANE TNX FER NICE QSO 73 AR K9AA DE N9YO SK CL
How to make a CW QSO Guide.
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This video is intended to help ham amateur radio CW operators complete a CW Morse QSO using a template. It is a format guide intended to help to make morse CW contact QSOs using a script.
These are my tips and tricks for learning CW / Morse Code for ham amateur radio. There are many skills in this tutorial that I talk about in this video as well. It takes practice to get good and sending code on the radio.
CW software is going to help you get there also. You'll need a good CW Iambic Paddle as well. Continuous wave has many benefits.
You'll want to reap these benefits when I teach you CW keying.
Learning Morse Code is not that hard. Now simply called "CW", radio communication by Morse code was the only way to communicate for the first decade or more of Amateur Radio.
"Continuous Wave" (CW) transmission, using vacuum tube oscillators that were capable of a very pure note. Today, modern Amateur Radio transceivers use solid state components and microprocessors to support a variety of communication modes including CW, voice, image and many digital data modes.
00:00 Introduction
01:08 Common Exchange
04:05 Ham Radio Q Codes
07:34 An Example of a CW QSO
20:48 Wrap it Up!
Hi Tom, good work in engaging young CW adepts to continue this wonderful part of HAM radio.I have a couple of minor remarks that may help.1. QSO is a part of a "Q" code just like QTH, QSB, QRN, …. As such, when you mention QSO you need to spell it as three different letters and not like a word "qso". It is "Q"+"eS"+"O". 2. "bk" is used to indicate to briefly pass-on the transmission back to the person you a heaving the QSO with. The "briefly" here is very important because when you do use "bk" you do not precede it with your Callsign and your correspondent's Callsign. Anything longer than "brief" would be against regulations. It is normally common to use between stations using faster rather than slow CW speeds. 3. "bt" is not a bt "-... -", it is an equal sign or "=" sign "-...-" sent as one letter (no space) but as you mentioned - it is used to "space" in time one part of your transmission from another. 4. YL is used to mention an unmarried female operator, XYL is used for married female operators.5. OM can be easily translated to and "Old Man" but it is more meant as a friend / someone trustworthy whose opinion you value. 5. "sk" at the end of a QSO means - this is your last transmission relating to this QSO. "sk" has also another rather sad meaning - when used in reference to someone else's Callsign it means this particular HAM operator is "silent key" (no longer with us / past away). I hope this somewhat helps. 73's, vk2fex hsc#826
I was looking everywhere for this video …. I’m so glad i found it
Good, methodical way of going through a CW QSO. Helped me a lot!!! TU!
Very helpful for the new hams out there. Back in the mid 70's you just had to listen and copy QSO's to see how it went, which wasn't bad.
Thanks for taking the time to make this video.
73
wd4dda
Good stuff! We need to preserve CW and this video will indeed help a new Ham get the nerve to try their first CW QSO.
Exactly it's a beautiful art form (of communication).
Hi Tom! Thank you for the job you did by creating this video! So far, this is the most helpful for newbies I could find! Thank you SO MUCH! Also, thanks to all who partake in commenting on it, many of them also helps a lot or give some meaningful thoughts.
Tom - Extremely useful video....most helpful and well explained. Thanks also for reprinting the detail in the included text materials. I really have to complement you on your willingness to just get out there and communicate, despite the fact that sometimes we are all learning this together at the same time, mistakes be damned! Good on you! Take Care Bud. Love your work.....
Thank you so much! Well, my goal is to be entertaining, somewhat inspirational and occasionally educational...meanwhile I'm getting better at this fun hobby all the time myself and I learn from my viewers comments also.
Hay Tom, really enjoyed your presentation. I am in the process of learning CW, and struggling some, probably due to not being a spring chicken, 78 years. I have done many other digi modes and the flow is very similar but this helps me get the flow correct so i don't confuse the other end of the conversation.
Thanks again
Paul de KR5OG
Awesome video! I’ve taken up the hobby again after being QRT for 20+ years. Being interested in the outdoors, scouting I’ve come to love working QRP in the field. CW is the next step and I’m hoping to make my first QSO during the summer. Love your vids and especially this one. Useful info! 73’s from Sweden de SM5SYO
Mikael Fredriksson awesome comment
Tom Thank you, it is beacuse of your QRP videos that I have knuckled down to use CW again.
The video information content you presented is great. I have laminated the information procedures and abbreviations to have on the bench while making CW QSO's. You just don't appreciate how much your guide has helped me to improve. 73 Colin VK2JCC
colincolin30 nice comments like that keep me going. Thanks so much
I'm just getting to the QSO stage, so this was very good for me, thank-you.
Thanks for the nice comment too
Thank you - getting back into CW, after a lapse of 20+ years... so this is good refresher! tnx! :)
Me too... lots of thing seem to have changed in short cut messages..
Glad it was helpful!
Good job on making it easier to get on air after a long absence.
73 de N4BRM
Cape Coral FL.
KN
Thanks so much. I"m having fun with it!.
Nice video. Well done. This was just what I was looking for.
Great video. thanks for this Tom. Much appreciated. I learned to take morse over a quarter century ago in the Army, never sent it. recently started sending with a straight key so this is a very good reminder - I had listened in to a number of QSO's and contests and was struggling to remember many of the short cuts and protocols. Hope to make contact some time. cheers mate from Aus. VK1FCLU
Great comment, thank you. Hope this helps. I will probably need to refer to my own video if I ever get rusty again.
Finally understand why AR is used sometimes, and BK others. THANKS!
Hey man, this REALLY helps. Thank you.
Excellent QSO guide for the beginner CW op. Well done. Tnx!
Very welcome!
This was very helpful . I hope i find another one just like this from you
Glad it was helpful!
excellent. always looking for good 'new'advice. Still not made a qso yet...still growing a pair!
Yeah, don't worry if it's perfect or if you mess up. If you can stick to a script it helps. For the longest time I would send this, "NEW TO CW SO KEEPING THIS QSO SHORT 73 73 TNX"
Great video. I got my foundation license in December last year, and I've been working through the Farnsworth method since then. I watched your video back then to get an idea of a QSO for when I was listening on the air, came back for a refresher and was very pleased with myself for catching out the extra 'e' when you keyed 'antenna', something I missed completely when I listened first.
I've made some notes from this video, I'm hoping to get on the air for my first QSO this summer.
Hey DJ thanks for the interesting comment. Hope you made that QSO.
@@hamradiocq I did, and it was a disaster. All I got was the signal report, I didn't even catch the full callsign of the other HAM. I need a lot more training to get remotely proficient to make decent QSOs, so the plan is to work on it over winter and hopefully do better next summer.
Newly licensed ham here.
Excellent content 👍🏻
Thanks for the video I have a script now to practice. Loved the video and even picked up a mistake in your sending. Not a criticism just great for me as shows how far I have come since starting to learn.
Sure, I understand. Great job and keep up the good work!
Thaanks al lot. I made a Excell sheet of it witch is locked and i can fill in call name rig etc. It copies to the entire QSO then.
Good topic! I'm just learning Morse myself. I have decided to learn at approximately 20wpm. I am going to make a list of all the different codes. Then a list of the ones I will ise regularly. I just bought a Xiegu G90, hoping the key translator helps out too!!!
"ES" for "and", very thought full!
I’ve commented before as a new ham learning CW and this vid is very helpful. One thing I have noticed is that DXexpedition stations or stations from unique areas, and have a pileup, don’t seem to be interested in much more than your call sign and after they respond with your signal report, they’re signal report, then they’re moving on.
Yeah, everyone has a different mission on CW. I am not that great at long chats so I keep it short myself.
Amazing upload! Thank you so much :)
You are welcome Mr. John Ratcliffe.
I just love the subtitles!
Thanks for the nice comment!
Great with the real life texts and keying to go along !
Thanks!
Awesome video! It really helps to see the format in your head. My first couple of QSO's were so bad, I could not remember the format, what do I send now, etc...nerve racking. The "header and footer"...I've been doing that as well. Even though when I hear other folks they do not, but it is very good practive for new guys like me to do. Also, with those prosigns...AR, KN...those are so confusing at time, Ive read that AR is "New Page, or an alternative for "Break".
Thanks! That AR is confusing as hell. Everyone says something different. Hopefully this will help people
I think it will. I have a drawer full of "Fill in the blank" sheets with the callsigns blank, RST blank, etc...they work if the other person goes by the format I have...lol.
great video man, help immensely
Appreciate the comment.
When I first learned this 50 years ago, K meant over (I'm done talking and expect a response). KN meant a response from specific station, and AR meant out (done and don't expect a response)
Older CW operator here as well first licensed in the early 70's.. This video is several years old, but a good refresher. There are differences between amateur and commercial/military procedure. What he explains will work, but it deviates slightly from the ARRL recommended format. Just want to add that "AR" is the prosign for "end of message". Out, meaning to expect no response, or "end of contact" is the prosign VA or SK. Going off the air altogether (QRT) is clear or "CL".
really helpful and good tips for beginner like me
Very useful ! Very well explained ! 73 from F4JRA
Thanks so much
still learning cw, thanks very helpful.
Glad to help
Good video. Wish I had that 50 years ago when I was a novice.
Thanks. Yeah I would have been a lot better off growinf up if I had internet back then
Thank you for this tutorial 73
Thanks for the comment I really appreciate it.
Great video!!! The timing is what is gonna be hard for me to learn.. At 7:25 you did TU for thank you... I would have thought it was just a letter X.. Im still just learning.. LOL
Great information. Thank you for sharing...
J Ada thanks!
I got my licence about a week ago and have made some contacts, I can send fine up up 25wpm with my paddle, but recieving I'm really lacking on, so I'm sending at 12-15 wpm in the hope that people will respond at that speed, I can generally get the gist of what's being said, and cope names, qth and signal report, but if someone goes off script I get lost very quickly, there are certain letters that catch me out, W,U,G mainly, where I need to take a split second to think "which one was that" and then I've fallen behind, I figure just doing more QSOs will solve that in time, as well as practicing in general. It's a load of fun, though!
Thank you
This was very helpful. I’ve been practicing my cw but then it’s like, now what? So I’m gonna practice this now for a while.
Yea and its good to listen to other qsos on the air. 7.055 area can be good
Ham Radio CQ Yeah there was something going on today (late morning est) around 7.030. The station was sending so fast I couldn’t make out who it was but there was a pileup trying to go back to him/her. So I’m assuming it was some unique station everybody wanted, me included, but heck I’m so far out of your guys’s league I just sat there.
Ham Radio CQ It’s like right now on 7.004. Everybody is sending wx4g over and over. Why is that?
Thank you very helpful 👍🏻👍🏻
You're very welcome!
Good info. Useful. Comments useful too.
Glad it was helpful!
very helpful. Thanks. I'm just about ready. Just need a radio ;-)
Thanks for the comment I really appreciate it.
Great video...
Thanks for the visit
Thanks
The best video ever💎💎💎💎💎💎💎💎 thank you 🍀🍀🍀🍀
Wow, thanks
Great video! Thanks for doing it ! Heath N4TWT
Very helpful. Tnx
You are most welcome
FB This is the kind of stuff I was NEVER taught in my novice days. This is mostly why I couldn't understand my QSO's and didn't like CW. 73 de WB9SXG
Thank you. Nervous to actually send. So helpful. 73- W1MKW
Don't be nervous, give it a try. I've messed up a lot of CW qso's. No one really cares or even knows. : )
Thanks fer this…. Name sometimes sent as OP…. I’m assuming stands for “operator”. Thanks fer keeping CW alive!!! de VK2AOE 73
Hello Tom, GREAT video. I thought "AR" signified "acknowledge Receipt" of message ? But I'm olde ! 🙃
Tom
This video must be the most valuable UA-cam video I’ve watched in a long, long time and I watch many technically focus UA-cams.
I’m just now assembling the QRP-Labs CW-QCX Kit for 40 Mtrs and will have an EFHW Arial strung across my apartment’s ceilings soon. Wish me luck with that. HaHa
I’m going to watch your video again and again, take notes and develop a Cheat Sheet.
Your video will get me to the point that I can make my first CW contact in 30+ years and to do it with a degree of confidence. This is after many, many hundreds of hours of HF DX SSB Ops.
Tom, that’s really worth something. Thank you very much for posting this video.
Watch Out NVIS, QRP, CW, Here I Come!
Thanks to Tom....
73, RUSSinNH, KA1RUW
Thanks so much!
I think AR is end of message and KN go only, invite a specific station to transmit
TNX ES CUL OM! I like that you use the true meaning of "BT"; it's the equal sign ("="), stupid!
Nice video.
AR is for the end of a message.... traffic message. A rag chew is not a message but a conversation.
Excellent - tnx fer the script info-do you have this printed so you could share?
You will have to copy paste, then print on your side.
I think this is one of the main things that deters people from getting into CW. Not only do you have to learn the letters, numbers and punctuation, but all of this formality stuff.
Yeah, but the formality makes it go smoothly
Exactly what I needed. Dumb question: are the equal signs in your script actually supposed to be keyed?
This video was taken a long time ago, I'm not sure now. Tnx for watching.
Another great way to get effective practice without pressure is have practice sessions across the desk with club members.
True
I cannot thank You enough for doing this video. I am on lesson 27 of the Koch method for learning Morse Code. On letter H right now. Everything was going smooth until that letter H showed up. S and 5 sounded really different now the H came along and now it’s " Is that a S or an H ?" or "Is that a H or a 5 ?" ☹ Any tips on the SH5 Dilemma ?
Best of 73,
DE VA7LTX
Yes, first of all, don't worry too much. Experience and hearing the letters 1000 times will start to come naturally. The S and H will start to sound natural. After a while the S and H are not a problem at all. Your mind needs to get to the point to where it automatically translates ... for an S. That just takes repetition.
Usually the context will tell you what it is. You'll usually know that it's a number or letter based upon whether it's a word. If you are expecting a Signal report, it will be a 599. or 579. So you'll know in advance that it's a 5.
What I would do in that case, is find software, or some way, to listen to a series of S, H, 5 over and over until it starts to become clear. Hear something like random this over and over: 5 5 H 5 H S 5 S 5 H 5 S 5. Start out slow, then speed it up as you get better and your mind will start decoding automatically! Relax! Take a break and enjoy. It will come!
Thanks Tom for the great advice and the CW QSO Template; will use them both. Best of 73 to You Tom from Lawrence VA7LTX
probably learning letter H at around the same time as you. I still get mixed up with H and 5 but a lot less now. Gd luck 73 M0ZDM.
Thanks Dave! You're right; it's getting better with practice and patience. 73 VA7LTX
I tried the following sentence in the Morse Code Trainer:
5 shih tzu dogs stashed 5 dishes of hash
It's tricky!
great!
73 de PY1ZB
SK
HI GREAT VID just wondering witch is right. on list ''sk'' = at end b4 call signs.. but in ur example u got ''sk'' after call signs
I think either is fine I've seen it both ways. I think at the very last thing you send is SK IMHO
KK TNX FER REPLY
excellent, nice work. see you on the air. ve7xrh
Thanks VE7XRH
Hi, like your way very much......my CW period was 46 years ago and I can't remember what the meaning of "v v v de call sign" was standing for, pls help!
Kind regards!
Michael, DF7RO
ah, just found something, based on "QSV"....so meaning sending TEST-patterns based on v (typically 3 times).......typically followed by the call sign.....
Thank you very much ! Really useful..73 IU1CYF
I've never seen "HW CPI?" on the air, though I see lots of references to it in books.
I see "HW?" or "HOW?" on the air most often, with a handful of "H?" and "HC?" rarely.
Ok
Can you upload those guides for downloading that you use in this video.
Yes, I'll work on putting this on my website asap. hamradiocq.com
@@hamradiocq Ok Let me know. I'm only finding the Beginner CQ Calling CQ Format Guide not other guide.
looks much like an assembler programming language )))
AR also means "out" Rtty.
TNx
Would you explain more about the usage of the = sign? It seems to be used in place of a period. Is that because it's easier to send than a period?
I dont think there is an equal sign in cw.
If I used it it was to describe two things that are similar
I'm seeing it all over the the text script you had. You weren't sending those?
No I don't send equal signs.
I think those are BT
@@alanmorris3114 That makes sense! I just didn't under why if he typed = in to the notepad document he wasn't understanding what I mean. It's all good now! 73
TU GUD video. For me to remember QRM = “man made “ interference, and QRN = “nature made” interference
Ahhh I like that. A memory mnemonic!
Ham Radio CQ Hello . Has this system evolved from the Q code ? Retired pilot. QNH / QQE/QDM/QSY ? I'm pretty rusty with my code, but I still have my practice key from when I was about 12. This could be something I could get into.
You send X for TU? is this common? TU ufb video 73
No sending of X for TU, must be mistake.
How long did it take for you to get your first successful QSO?
Well probably a month but I started on local repeaters.
I messed up my first few cw contacts about 3 or 4 months in. I'm not special. Just failed a lot and kept trying.
Great stuff Tom! I started learning CW Morse a few weeks ago and this is really helpful. Can you share a link to the text file you were using here? N9YO DE KN4CRD KN
TNX FER NICE COMMENT. I put the QSO sample here in the description. Good luck and never stop training. It's about putting the time in.
AnythingWithWheels FB thanks Tom!
What radio are you using
Icom 7300
if you are going to follow CW the right way,, do it right from the start as in your or his report.
Oh the right way! You have cornered the market.
599X vy 73 de DL1ZM
DarDarDidiDarDar, DarDarDidiDarDar When I send that , it means I am thinking .but probably means comer, full stop or question mark . Not been on the key or airwaves for donkeys years. tx still ok @15/18 wpm.but rx p1$$ poor.Struggle to head read @12 now . Think I will stick to keyboard and internet to keep in touch with people overseas.
Ok, thanks.
Correct, do not transmit faster than the slowest station, courtesy
Agreed.
Nice video. However your Code was sent at a speed that no "beginner" sends at or can copy at. Still, I printed your transcript and am pleased with the helpful information.
Ok.
Yes the video would have been so much more helpful 10 minutes longer. *sarcasm
Just listen and feel it.
7:22 Sounds to me you're sending an X?
Mistakes are likely
The origin of "de" is actually Spanish, meaning "of" or "from"
... or French ... 😂
About AR: Check out the point 4) in this document: www.ira.is/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/VA14_C3_40-IRA-Conflicting-CW-Procedure.pdf Disclosure I'm nowhere near my first CW QSO, I just googled it, don't know what it's worth!
They seem to say the same thing here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosigns_for_Morse_code
I understand completely. I wanna see you on the air. AR means accounts receivable I think
Cheers, yeah I'm training, my goal is to have my first QSO around August, I'm already scared hahaha
Jonathan Adami oh don't worry too much things never go perfectly and hams are nice. I was a perfectionist too at first but I realized it wasn't necessary.... it's not biggy if things don't go right.
I tried to read that document about AR and it even further confused me... No joke it makes even less sense. I officially hate AR.
You said in ham radio every man is an old man which is correct but not every lady is a young lady. Typically once you marry them they are an ExYL.
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KN over.
AR over, end of message.
MAS QUE CARA CHATO!!!