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Hope it helped, good luck

Love your style. Thank you, just what I needed.

Thanks Keith, de GW1DRZ

What is the straight key in the thumbnail?

I started learning the code when I was in my mid 50s. Took me around 6 weeks, 10 minutes 3 times a day, to get the letters numbers, <BT> and ? down and around double that before I was comfortable enough to get on the air. Well I did and I had a few shakey QSOs but I did it. Figured after that, the next thing to do was that I should probably get my license reinstated :-)

Thank you for the encouragement!

For #2: Recommendation T/R 61-02 Harmonised Amateur Radio Examination Certificates ( HAREC ): The examinee is required to demonstrate his ability to send and transcribe in Morse code, plain texts, number groups, punctuation and other signs: at a speed not less than 5 words per minute for a duration of at least 3 minutes with a maximum of 4 errors in reception with a maximum of 1 uncorrected and 4 corrected errors in transmission using a non-automatic Morse key

Much of this is true even if you've already been on the air, going the next step, like joining CW nets, is just as frightful and I want to just be perfect. Augh! I know, I know, ---- just do it! Thanks for the good coaching!

Still have my flash cards Keith😀, GW1DRZ

I'm a new Tech+General into the hobby, I joined Long Island CW, and I'm excited to get on the beginners carousel! Thanks for your videos, they are all very helpful to new HAMs like myself!! 73 KE9BAN

I have a heavy weight call, VA2WLM: weight of 72! But it's nicely "balanced": 10 dots / 10 dashes.

Thanks, Keith

Cw is a learning process. Always something new to explore. Congrats and 73.

Thanks for this video and explaining how to use the radio’s memory to activate the RBN Keith. I know when I started I struggled having the RBN recognize me. This did the trick.

Check my RUclips site new video might answer your questions. 73

My dear friend. You are doing an excellent job for the whole world!…. My applauses…!

Very helpful! A couple of things come to mind… A video where you transmit to show if you’re spotted. I’ve transmitted a few times before but have never been spotted. I’m a complete beginner, so… And, is there any way to keep the map in one location?? I wish you could set the map and it’d stay there.

Thank you sir. I'm one of those folks who was licensed way back in the novice days but always had key fright. I've taken BC1, BC2, and done a bit of BC3 through LICW and I thank all you instructors very much. I ran into a busy period but kept up with practice on the practice page. But, one day I realized I couldn't just sit there, that I needed to do exactly what you are telling us to. So, I'm trying to make the time to get on each day. Even if it is just to listen and copy in the morning. But I am trying to hunt POTA and got one under my belt. Those of us with fright just need to do it as you say and I'll keep trying. One resource for people I'd suggest is an old book by Dale Carnegie - How to Stop Worrying and Start Living. It speaks directly to this issue about worry. Thanks again for your videos. 73

Excellent video and points, as always, Keith! Perfection is the enemy of completion; further, no one really judges how well or poorly you send when it comes to the early POTA/SOTA/SKCC/LICW exchanges. Hone your skills there and gain confidence. And if you don't copy a call completely, just send what you heard followed by a ?

Great points!

I did that this week on Monday night. I decided to finally give it a go. I made a simple POTA hunt to a guy in NE. I got my call out. He replied 😮 So I followed the script and bumbled my way through it, made many, many mistakes. He was patient, and we finished it. My blood pressure must have been through the roof, head felt hot, ears burning. After, I wrote an email to him, apologizing for how bad I was. Jim (WBØRLJ ) was the kindest guy and very understanding. That is a real life experience from a new CW guy. It was also a confidence booster. Cheers VE3RIM

Yep, just dive right in.

I want to join the LICW club soon. I own a G90, I do not own a key yet (still looking for a good suggestion) Do I need a key before I join? Can I get along at first without one? I am on a very limited budget, I have enough saved in my MAD Money Fund ( as my dad used to callit lol) to join.

Thank you very much for the encouraging words. I am doing the LICW beginners classes and struggling on the productive practice part. I have a very odd work schedule. 73 Jose AD2ID.

Thank you. I liked hearing that real life CW is different than the computer generated CW. I’ll have to start listening over the air as I practice. 73

Thank you kindly for the encouragement, I think I needed that. I really enjoyed the video.

Yes that is often the case for many of us. That gap can be an issue. Good luck with it.

My motivation: Its my last step stretch goal after Extra. Trying to get rid of the Farnsworth crutch . 12/7 - LICW #266

Great information and I appreciate the live qso! Thank you!

Thank you so much for posting this video. I’m just about ready to get on the air

Very well done video. There isn't one thing I disagree with. If anyone hears KE8TBM on the bands, make sure to grab me. I will go as slow as you want. The only thing I ask is that you let me make mistakes also. You will be amazed what your brain can do. 73 to all.

Awesome video. Thanks!

Just the video I needed. I learned code in 1994 when I licensed, primarily to keep my mentor happy, he was a radio operator in the navy during WW2 and always told me I would be glad I did. He was right, I bought a Lab 599 along with the key that mounts to the chassis, an EFHW, mast, and a Bioenno battery because now, in my older years I want to start doing POTA and SOTA activities to stay active. My main issue has been fear because I'm a little rusty, I guess I can just picture all the other code guys sitting around in their birthday suits knocking out code and try not to break out laughing!

The video only seems to last a few second then returns to the start.

for anyone afraid that their age is going to get in the way of learning CW I love pointing to the clip from the tail end of DitDitDah Podcast Episode #7 - "The Bedtime Story Net" & Statue of Liberty at the 33 minute mark Emily Saldana, KB3VVE talks about Larry from New Jersey who learned CW at 72 and now 92 and head-copying. Lovely short story. Great episode to get over that age-stopgap for most folks.

Good advice, Keith. I come from the years when Morse code was a license requirement. Guys, you must do some code every day, not long sessions, but make it a habit. Get on the air and make contacts. Once you do that begin to send a bit faster than you are comfortable. You'll get code at that speed. Last thing, Keith, Morse is a one syllable name. Think of it as MORS. It is not mor-ris. Keep us these great videos.

#2 a big one. Every time I hear a conversation among cw hams, inevitably each one starts talking about how fast they can operate, usually with 30 wpm as the minimum and proceeding up from there. They may not intend to discourage new cw ops, but it gets ingrained in your mind that to be a good cw op you have to match that. I always try to put it out that, NO, you don't have to be a fast op to have fun. I have been a cw op for 50 years, 99% cw, and the highest test I can pass is the 15 wpm arrl proficiency certificate. After I retired, I was determined to get my speed to 25 and so for FOUR YEARS, I was absolutely faithful with 6 to 8, 30+ minute sessions a week, copying the w1aw online code practice at 25. After 4 years, I wasn't able to go on at that level of practice. And I never was able to pass the 20 wpm. I also realized that in all my years of good 10 to 18 wpm operating, it never stopped me from enjoying cw operating, by being a slow speed operator. Never! My suggestion to new or older ops, is to call CQ yourself, at YOUR comfortable speed, instead of always answering others. Most will match your CQ speed. I usually operate a bug, but will go right to my straight key to respond to someone sending CQ slower. The best way I learned to stick with CW is to fall in love with it's history and wanting to be a part of keeping it alive. I've studied the railroad land telegraphy and the maritime Morse code history and am fascinated with it from the great lakes to the high seas operators. And what's really been cool is that I've worked quite a few former maritime and railroad telegraph operators on ham radio. That's been a real treat. And speaking of slower speeds, if you listen to many of the old maritime cw recordings, often they are operating well below 20 wpm. On ham radio, most casual cw operating is between 13 and 18 wpm, a range that almost everyone can reach. When ham radio started in the early 1900's, the Morse test was 5 wpm in the US. Later it eventually 13, which was the general class that most hams were. So be encouraged. AA4WA

Keith . . . you absolutely define the word Elmer.

Love your videos. I wear hearing aids, too. CW since 1977.

Great video Keith. Thanks for posting.

Verry encouraging!!!

I have heard all the excuses as to why someone can't learn. VE3IIM/VE6PG

No disrespect but is that Walter white

Thank you. Appreciate the comment

Thank you Peter. Looking forward to seeing you either in class or on the air.

Great stuff ! Peter Hume ON3VCF LICW 5992 I like your videos and what you say made sense and helps. I am working to get to GOTA. That's why i joined. Very likely you will see le in a class Good on you Peter in Brussels Belgium

Saw you. Recognised you. Knew you had something meaningful to share !

I agree, even though sometimes hands do their own thing, a harm up before transmitting always helps!

That's very useful information. One thing I hadn't thought off is to listen for my own call being returned. I've been struggling to get my CW back for a very long time. I still don't have the confidence to do so but your information is very well worth knowing. 73. HS0ZLQ. G0MIH.

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