SOTA CW for beginners

[M0HGY]

Hi Konrad,

Good luck in learning CW, you will see loads of advise on different methods on how to learn CW on these threads below:

Learning morse

Ok so i know it’s been covered to death but thought I’d briefly mention my latest go at trying to learn the code. I’ve just received my new F817 and have only got round to admiring how tiny it is and to charge the battery that came with it. I also was told that CW really helps bring this amazing looking rig to life. So for about the fourth time in my life I’m going to have a go at learning the code. I have the G4FON program at home and have used lcwo.net in the past. One thing I have learnt fr…

Learning CW for SOTA

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…

Learning morse

Ok so i know it’s been covered to death but thought I’d briefly mention my latest go at trying to learn the code. I’ve just received my new F817 and have only got round to admiring how tiny it is and to charge the battery that came with it. I also was told that CW really helps bring this amazing looking rig to life. So for about the fourth time in my life I’m going to have a go at learning the code. I have the G4FON program at home and have used lcwo.net in the past. One thing I have learnt fr…

Learn CW Online

Have been sent this link by a friend Welcome to LCWO.net - Learn Morse Code (CW) Online! - Learn CW Online i will be giving it a try later today. If it has already been posted on the reflector then by all means delete. Sean M0GIA

Learning morse code (what?!?!?!)

please note! this post will probably contain a lot of ‘justin bieber mama crying’!! I though of learning CW and after reading some old posts here and on google I start doing the exercises on LCWO online. I know that Im probably younger than the average ham in here (age 33) but my little brain started hurting on lesson 3-4 with 4 letters total!!! how do you train a relatively old dog this new trick!!! (maybe better learn quantum physics? lol) I won’t give up that easy but even …

Learning Morse code

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…

First CW

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 …

CW newbie looking for activation recordings

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…

You will probably be bored after reading all these learning CW threads, I know I was.

Jimmy M0HGY