M0HGY
3 October 2016 17:22
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Hi Anthony,
Good luck with learning CW. Plenty of others have started threads about learning CW before and have had plenty of advice from them. I thought rather than this turning also into a long learning CW thread here are the links to the other learning CW thread. I suggest you read through these as there are loads of advise of different methods on how to learn CW. You will probably be bored after reading through them, I know I was
In an attempt to reduce my pack weight and, to a lesser extent, the amount of ribbing I get from friends for being “half a ham,” I have started to learn Morse code this holiday season. As it turns out, learning CW for SOTA very much resembles learning CW for almost everything else. I’ve been spending some time with the G4FON Koch trainer, but the initial acquisition of the alphabet has been very challenging. Asking older hams about how they learned the answers almost always drifted towards le…
please note! this post will probably contain a lot of ‘justin bieber mama crying’!!
So, I have decided to join the ranks of those who can speak and understand Morse code.
With a recent activation having not been successful, I want to round out my kit and doing some QRP 20m cw from the peaks of New York.
Winter is here… its cold and gets dark at 5pm… when I get out of work at 6, I come home eat and do a whole lot of nothing until I’m tired enough to fall asleep so CW is going to be my new thing to learn while I have all this idle time.
Since the majority of activators on HF a…
Well, after years of pontificating I went and called CQ in Morse.
It was worse than I had feared it would be!
Amelia (10) and I set off up the Gun, G/SP-013, with Morgan the black SOTA dog and built our station. In lovely sunshine and a fresh breeze we were a few meters to the East of the trig point and using a SOTABeams Band Hopper 3 set for 40M but not very high, maybe 5M at it’s vertex.
I had a listen for a while and made sure I was as ready as I could be. I turned the width down on the …
Afternoon All
For the past six months (may be longer) I have been learning CW, due to work and family I have only managed aprox 10mins a day five day a week using the just learn Morse code software set to 20wpm and an effective speed of 8.
Just reached the end of learning the characters a-z 0-9 / . and looking to spark a bit more enthusiasm on my learning experience. Just wondering if anyone has any recordings of activations they have done recently that I can use to decode the callsingns and…
There are probably other threads about learning CW as well, but these were the ones I could find.
I hope from all the CW advice, you find a learning method that is suitable for you and you make some successful CW contacts in the future.
Jimmy M0HGY
