Excellent advice from apparently from experience. I am new to the cw. I've learned all alphabet fairly quickly using a visual chart. I can key anything at an OK speed. But now I can see the absence of listening practice. I cannot follow at all. Very good tips. I tried to imagine how a real QSO would go and script as you mentioned it was the first thing that came to mind. Thank you for the advice. Also the reasons to get into CW are exactly the same for me. The idea of hanging few wires in the trees, fire up a station from a battery in the mountains and exchange few meaningful beeps with someone 6000 km away keeps me going. 73
Another very good reason to learn CW--There are many DX stations that don't speak English well enough for phone, but will hold a simple CW QSO. I have been inactive since the early 2000s but when I left I worked mainly CW. The weird thing was I fought learning it for years, starting to learn and then giving up. I finally learned it about the time they came out with the no code Tech License. You still couldn't get on HF at that time until you passed 5WPM code, but I did it because I was lusting after HF. After I scraped by I got on 80 CW. I started pushing myself to get faster and faster and with in a month was doing 14WPM for my general ticket. I recommend learning with a straight key for some time though. MFJ has a nice one that comes with a base and speaker. I am going to have to do a refresher on my CW skills as soon as I am able to get a station together. 73 N8PEF
It really helps to start with a quality straight key. You learn how to separate words so what your are sending to others is coherent. Speed is not important. Reliable code and accuracy is most important. The MAJORITY of CW ops are not doing 35 words per minute. Most people are under 20 wpm. Maybe 25. You always send faster than you can receive so you have to force yourself to only go as fast (slow) as the slowest operator. If you don’t then what is the point? It’s a hobby
just found this video. as to CW, you're right, ... it's all practice, practice practice. And then some more practice. Listen and don't write it down. The writing letters down slows me some. It took a while, but I hear "words", not letters. QTH, name, RST , rig. I don't receive letters, but word groups. You're right about how a standard QSO flows... The most impressive thing I ever saw was a ex-military operator going at 20-40 wpm, and touch typing out the QSO on a typewriter, AND talking to me about my novice station at the same time. I was, to say the least, an awed teenager! OH, he was using a straight key, although he had a bug also.
Oh man, I'm so sorry. Try not to worry too much because none of it is that important. No one cares too much they just move on. Fail often and learn fast!
Good job! I have experienced some of the same troubles that you mentioned and also discovered some of the same tips that really helped me out, such as the script. I got my General ticket in 1993 and passing a 13 wpm CW test was required. Being in and out of the hobby since has left me rusty, especially after this last 9 year absence from the hobby. This time around I am using compromised antennas is my attic thanks to an HOA. CW is probably going to get me the most contacts, so CW will be my main focus. I find it challenging and fun. As you mentioned, you can do a lot with a simple, low powered transceiver.
I love it. Just try and find your motivation and stay with it. I have done the same thing, I rotate hobbies, after a while, get rusty, then get back into it over and over leaves me with a good general knowledge, but not expert at any 1 hobby. : )
Thank you at last a really helpful video especially regarding going on air first time etc... I am 3 years into my Ham life, lol. Really desperate to learn CW and just starting out on my journey, this video was chock full of great little tips. Thank you again for posting, 73.
I agree - repetition, but active listening, not just background noise like you described in your car "writing" on your leg with your finger. Some people have told me they translate license plates and signs as they drive. I bought a kit for a Morse tutor and love it. This one on top of the normal (amd some advanced) training also can talk to another close by via RF so two can practice send/receive.
Very good and helpful video! At my 53 I realized I need the morse code as it really opens so much. Thanks for your help and hope to meet you on the bands! 73 de RK3APF.
And it is beautiful in it’s simplicity. A beautiful language which it seems will never die!!!! Used it at sea for a few short months. We should all QRS to encourage newcomers and never answer quicker than the caller…..
Thanks for the video. I am close to attempting my first CW contact and your script will be very helpful. I had trouble copying it because you kept shaking the paper. After pausing many times, I was finally successful. 73 de W4ORR
I learned CW in (1989) by listening to Gordon West cassette tapes. I just remember that 'E' was the first letter taught. I was able to pass my (required for NOVICE Class) 5 wpw within about (2) weeks.
@@hamradiocq I couldn't do even close to (13 wpm) now. I just started back a couple of days ago, and could barely remember some of the alphabet! I could always send faster than I could receive, which is probably the case with most people, and I may be about (10 wpw) on send now. I have a straight key coming Monday, and with all the resources available now, I will get it together, and hopefully quickly. I just really wanna get up to speed with a straight key.
I learned using Jerry Ziliak's cassette tapes. Ziliak (KB6MT) trains you using sentences backwards and learning groups by associating a code instantly with a letter. That way, your brain doesn't anticipate letters. Also, never look at a Boy Scout letter-to-code table. You provide good advice all around, thanks.
Actually, I learned using Gordon's cassette tapes about 2003 also. I would play in the car over and over during my commutes. : ) I moved to software now because it's more flexible in speeds and ubiquitous and I know the letters. : )
Sorry for diletant question)))But what is the maximum distance avaliable for you with the strong amateurish antenna? Is it possible to listen people from Europe or even Russia?
I talked to France Europe, from middle-USA about a week ago. It's in my other video called this, "ICOM IC-7300 Ham Radio Contesting using MP1 Super Antenna". I don't hear Europe very often. I hear South America a lot. But they usually speak Spanish. This is not a great antenna. It's designed to be carried around lightweight. I don't have a big antenna yet. I have never heard Russia. I would love to though!!!
It depends on the radio/electrical conditions. The radio waves bounce and skip off of the atmosphere if the sun ionizes it just right. You never know what or who you will hear!
From New York with just 100 watts into a dipole, I have worked over 100 countries around the world including Japan, Australia and Antarctica. 73, WB2SMK
Great video. Thanks for promoting what is the best mode on Amateur Radio bar non. Good point from K5HJ, learn iambic keying, much easier. Just one little niggle and we have all done it, when you sent the two LL's in CALL you just squashed them together a tad, something to watch out for :O) May the Morse stay with you. 73 George ps The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog. All the letters of the alphabet.
Personally, I can send 10 times better than I can copy. I like the script idea, I've found that when I have to send something off the top of my head it send like a bunch of spaced letters than a word. The script would definitely remove some apprehension! Would love to see your scripts!
A short time ago, I read about the total failure of teaching French Resistance how to work as CW operators even after a whole year of daily Training in England. It seems that the trainees learned how to pass the courses and then, be a total failure in receiving stuff. They where able to send messages back to England but not understand the messages from Home base in England.
you want to learn is begali spark about 130.00 if you don't want to spand too money ! and is heavy castiron !2009 i pass my code right before they drop the codei got all all abc a to z and numbers ! i kept it off and on morse code ! now i remember it now !
thanks for these great tips. I am not sure if this question was answered, but how long did it take you to comfortably 1) read / listen 2) write / transmit. ? 73 va3thm
Ham RadioAccount I could hear and decode very slow text in probably 4 to 8 weeks of daily study when I first started. It took longer to speed up. Lack of consistent practice has kept me from being elite. Practice equals ability
Ham RadioAccount transmitting took me even longer because I didn't do jt much. Checkout my video on the Winkler that is the kind of valuable training tool you need to get better
thanks, off topic I am very glad to see content producers like you promoting alternates to centrally controlled youtube with its censorship AI .Do check out bitchute, zerofoot print and totally browser based
okay I know they did this shit for a lot cheaper back in the day. As a person new to transmitting but studying morse code, what is the cheapest and easiest way to transmit morse code only to my grandpa? He is only 200 miles away.
@@sleezymechanic check out the QCX kit from QRP-Labs.com; $49 for a single band CW transceiver - www.qrp-labs.com/qcx.html it's a steal. I have two - a 20m and a 40m version - best for day and night, respectively. You need to think about an antenna, though, as that is quite important... Though the QCX will, even with only 5W, get out much further with the right antenna, as you only want to get out 200 miles or so, you have two obvious choices for antennas: a low-mounted horizontal (even as low as 8 feet should do it) will radiate almost vertically and give you a short bounce (what they call NVIS, or Near Vertical Incidence Skywave); and a half-wave vertical will give you direct - if omnidirectional - radiation at a nice low angle. NVIS only works on the lower bands, like 80m and 40m, and 80m only works at night, so I suggest you get a 40m transceiver. A quarter-wave vertical, in contrast to a half wave, is easier to put up - especially on 40m, where a half-wave is 66 feet high - but its radiation pattern is such that low angle emission isn't as good, so you might skip right over grandpa. The horizontal - which is what I use right now - is probably your best choice. Oh, one more thing: while 5W will just about be enough for CW with NVIS, with reasonable weather conditions, if you want to go SSB you'll almost certainly need at least 20W. Good luck!
h four dots i never count, i see it as two times two dots and when you hear 5, five dots you hear immediatly the difference i speak dutch and my english is not good but have a nice day ok
Practice 20 minutes a day And only practice what you can not copy 100 percent No point in practice of anything you can copy 100 percent There is no learning what you already know Just a waste of time Keep practicing and pushing for what you can not quite copy 20 minutes a day Every day
Although I agree with most - if not all - of your recommendations, you are lacking practice yourself. If you are sufficiently familiar with the sound of each character, there should not be a problem with J and 1 or V and 4. Also your iambic key skills seem to be at a novice level. With a proper iambic key, you should send a C by just squeezing the paddles in a way that you hit the right paddle (dash) first. In the demo you are sending every dash and dot separately, therefore making too many finger movements. This is why you can't speed up your code. Finally computer decoders are a valuable tool for learning how to key clean code, but they are virtually worthless if you hook them up to a live amateur band because they miss too much. The program CwGet is doing a fair job, if properly fine-tuned. But nevertheless, nice video! Rob PA3BSV
Don't try to memorize a written morse code chart, it will only impede your progress in learning it. When you hear the sound think of the letter. Good luck and wishing you many enjoying contacts. 73, AH0D, Saipan
TNX for a good CW practise ideas. I am writing everything and everywhere by CW. Traffic marks, shops names... My next step is, that I want my own CW key. 73' de OH6HFO
Not sure why you think it's strange; maybe because your understanding isn't complete. It isn't the key itself, it's the "keyer" function (usually software, nowadays) in the transceiver that produces the correctly metered and spaced dits and dahs. The "twin paddle" key merely tells the keyer what to do. If you squeeze both paddles, the first identified paddle triggers the first tone, then the keyer continues to produce alternating length activations of the transmitter (we call them tones, because that's how we identify the activity; a CW transmitter doesn't actually send a tone) with the appropriate spacing, as configured by the operator in the keyer settings. The "iambic" part refers to the poetic rhythm of the "deDUM, deDUM" that results from the continuously repeating pattern. It may (or may not) interest you to know that the opposite - "DUMde DUMde" pattern is, technically speaking, "trochaic", not iambic. So, given that it is the combination of the key and the keyer function that produces the phenomenon, if we were technically correct and complete we would call the key & keyer an "iambic/trochaic keying system".
I think that's like asking why a dog sticks its head out of the window of a moving car: if you have to ask the question, you wouldn't understand the answer :-)
Good job with the video. I just bought my first paddle and am trying to learn the letters in my head. You are right. copying and sending are two different skill sets. 73 George KB3WAQ
Why man? Go out with your family. You can easily travel to all countries of the world and spend precious time together. The times where one could talk with distant countries are passed.
Surplus Firearm And with who you are talking? And what kind of information you exchange with them? Look at the ham fest around the world, look those ham operators here on you tube, hear them on radio. They are stacked in their chairs, incapable to talk like human beings, snobs, and overweight,. They are the principal cause, many young operators, after few months leave the hobby for good.
Excellent advice from apparently from experience. I am new to the cw. I've learned all alphabet fairly quickly using a visual chart. I can key anything at an OK speed. But now I can see the absence of listening practice. I cannot follow at all. Very good tips. I tried to imagine how a real QSO would go and script as you mentioned it was the first thing that came to mind. Thank you for the advice. Also the reasons to get into CW are exactly the same for me. The idea of hanging few wires in the trees, fire up a station from a battery in the mountains and exchange few meaningful beeps with someone 6000 km away keeps me going. 73
Another very good reason to learn CW--There are many DX stations that don't speak English well enough for phone, but will hold a simple CW QSO. I have been inactive since the early 2000s but when I left I worked mainly CW. The weird thing was I fought learning it for years, starting to learn and then giving up. I finally learned it about the time they came out with the no code Tech License. You still couldn't get on HF at that time until you passed 5WPM code, but I did it because I was lusting after HF. After I scraped by I got on 80 CW. I started pushing myself to get faster and faster and with in a month was doing 14WPM for my general ticket. I recommend learning with a straight key for some time though. MFJ has a nice one that comes with a base and speaker. I am going to have to do a refresher on my CW skills as soon as I am able to get a station together. 73 N8PEF
It really helps to start with a quality straight key. You learn how to separate words so what your are sending to others is coherent. Speed is not important. Reliable code and accuracy is most important. The MAJORITY of CW ops are not doing 35 words per minute. Most people are under 20 wpm. Maybe 25. You always send faster than you can receive so you have to force yourself to only go as fast (slow) as the slowest operator. If you don’t then what is the point? It’s a hobby
just found this video. as to CW, you're right, ... it's all practice, practice practice. And then some more practice. Listen and don't write it down. The writing letters down slows me some.
It took a while, but I hear "words", not letters. QTH, name, RST , rig. I don't receive letters, but word groups. You're right about how a standard QSO flows...
The most impressive thing I ever saw was a ex-military operator going at 20-40 wpm, and touch typing out the QSO on a typewriter, AND talking to me about my novice station at the same time. I was, to say the least, an awed teenager! OH, he was using a straight key, although he had a bug also.
Jim Barrie awesome comment
I have listened to many CW videos. This one is among the most informative that I have listened to. Thank you.
I liked the script idea, very useful! Thanks for sharing your tips!
Antonio Barba sure I hope it helps
The script is a great idea. Thank you. My first CW QSO was a disaster. He answered my CQ and I started shaking so hard I could barely send my call.
Oh man, I'm so sorry. Try not to worry too much because none of it is that important. No one cares too much they just move on. Fail often and learn fast!
AnythingWithWheels Oh, I’m over it now. Getting more comfortable all the time.
Good job! I have experienced some of the same troubles that you mentioned and also discovered some of the same tips that really helped me out, such as the script. I got my General ticket in 1993 and passing a 13 wpm CW test was required. Being in and out of the hobby since has left me rusty, especially after this last 9 year absence from the hobby. This time around I am using compromised antennas is my attic thanks to an HOA. CW is probably going to get me the most contacts, so CW will be my main focus. I find it challenging and fun. As you mentioned, you can do a lot with a simple, low powered transceiver.
I love it. Just try and find your motivation and stay with it. I have done the same thing, I rotate hobbies, after a while, get rusty, then get back into it over and over leaves me with a good general knowledge, but not expert at any 1 hobby. : )
How wide is your screen??? that's crazy!
Excellent tips! Been a ham since 1982, and got a couple of tips I'd never heard here. Thanks for making and sharing the video! Ross, KI5SR
I’m a learner and this is helpful. I will listen again and again. Thanks for sharing.
You're very welcome!
Thank you at last a really helpful video especially regarding going on air first time etc... I am 3 years into my Ham life, lol. Really desperate to learn CW and just starting out on my journey, this video was chock full of great little tips. Thank you again for posting, 73.
Thanks Paddy. good luck and 73
Thanks for sharing your experience. The part about making a script is brilliant!
I agree - repetition, but active listening, not just background noise like you described in your car "writing" on your leg with your finger.
Some people have told me they translate license plates and signs as they drive.
I bought a kit for a Morse tutor and love it. This one on top of the normal (amd some advanced) training also can talk to another close by via RF so two can practice send/receive.
Thanks for the comment I really appreciate it.
Very good and helpful video! At my 53 I realized I need the morse code as it really opens so much. Thanks for your help and hope to meet you on the bands! 73 de RK3APF.
Thank you!
And it is beautiful in it’s simplicity. A beautiful language which it seems will never die!!!! Used it at sea for a few short months. We should all QRS to encourage newcomers and never answer quicker than the caller…..
Last night I worked 8 stations with CW with a Radio I built from a kit. QRP Labs.
The radio is the QCX+. It puts out 5W.
Love it
Great advice...looking forward to it. Just starting out.
Welcome aboard!
Thanks for the video. I am close to attempting my first CW contact and your script will be very helpful. I had trouble copying it because you kept shaking the paper. After pausing many times, I was finally successful. 73 de W4ORR
Yeah at the end of the day, it' doesn't matter. Just give it a try and whatever happens happens. : )
I learned CW in (1989) by listening to Gordon West cassette tapes. I just remember that 'E' was the first letter taught. I was able to pass my (required for NOVICE Class) 5 wpw within about (2) weeks.
I learned by GW tapes as well about year 2002. I had to pass a 13wpm test!
@@hamradiocq I couldn't do even close to (13 wpm) now. I just started back a couple of days ago, and could barely remember some of the alphabet! I could always send faster than I could receive, which is probably the case with most people, and I may be about (10 wpw) on send now. I have a straight key coming Monday, and with all the resources available now, I will get it together, and hopefully quickly. I just really wanna get up to speed with a straight key.
I learned using Jerry Ziliak's cassette tapes. Ziliak (KB6MT) trains you using sentences backwards and learning groups by associating a code instantly with a letter. That way, your brain doesn't anticipate letters. Also, never look at a Boy Scout letter-to-code table.
You provide good advice all around, thanks.
Thanks Patrick
Thanks for the software suggestion.
You're welcome!
A decoder is a must for learning to send with a straight key
If a decoder can read what you are sending you have a clean fist
CD S
The fat snob guys at the other end, doesn't deserve this kind of things.
Let them exchange cards and talk about their expensive radios.
Software and electronics - ha! I learned Morse Code from Gordon West’s audio tapes in the early 1990s. They never failed me!
Actually, I learned using Gordon's cassette tapes about 2003 also. I would play in the car over and over during my commutes. : ) I moved to software now because it's more flexible in speeds and ubiquitous and I know the letters. : )
Live the video 👍 I want to get that lambic keyer you have , make and model please ? Thanks much
The ARRL has audio files you can download at various speeds.
Yep, I've used those before.
All good tips! Thanks for the vid.
Great tips! I enjoy your videos very much!
Thanks do much
The great thing about CW is that it’s simple. 5 watts can get you Worldwide with basic antennas. It’s a ton of fun.
Exactly
Wise words and useful tips, thanks!
My pleasure!
I'm a noob but you gave dammit good tips, thank you.
Sorry for diletant question)))But what is the maximum distance avaliable for you with the strong amateurish antenna? Is it possible to listen people from Europe or even Russia?
I talked to France Europe, from middle-USA about a week ago. It's in my other video called this, "ICOM IC-7300 Ham Radio Contesting using MP1 Super Antenna". I don't hear Europe very often. I hear South America a lot. But they usually speak Spanish. This is not a great antenna. It's designed to be carried around lightweight. I don't have a big antenna yet. I have never heard Russia. I would love to though!!!
It depends on the radio/electrical conditions. The radio waves bounce and skip off of the atmosphere if the sun ionizes it just right. You never know what or who you will hear!
From New York with just 100 watts into a dipole, I have worked over 100 countries around the world including Japan, Australia and Antarctica. 73, WB2SMK
AnythingWithWheels
Great video. Thanks for promoting what is the best mode on Amateur Radio bar non.
Good point from K5HJ, learn iambic keying, much easier.
Just one little niggle and we have all done it, when you sent the two LL's in CALL you just squashed them together a tad, something to watch out for :O)
May the Morse stay with you.
73
George
ps
The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.
All the letters of the alphabet.
Ha! Love it great comment.
Thank for this video.
Personally, I can send 10 times better than I can copy. I like the script idea, I've found that when I have to send something off the top of my head it send like a bunch of spaced letters than a word. The script would definitely remove some apprehension! Would love to see your scripts!
Excellent!
Thanks!
Tommy, Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for commenting!
Good stuff!
Thanks!
Thanks for the tips! Any chance you have a blank pdf or google docs version of that script available for download?
Sorry, I don't but that's a great idea. I'll put them on me web site: hamradiocq.com/cw-qso-format-guide-cheat-sheet/
any portable radio build in keyboard that auto generates the morse code?
Not of top of my head.
A short time ago, I read about the total failure of teaching French Resistance how to work as CW operators even after a whole year of daily Training in England. It seems that the trainees learned how to pass the courses and then, be a total failure in receiving stuff. They where able to send messages back to England but not understand the messages from Home base in England.
That's interesting Manuel. I bet their hearts weren't in it. You gotta really want to learn.
What part of Wyo are you? QTH Powell by Cody. Just learning CW. Gotta long way to go. Love your ideas and tips. Great vid! 73 KB0BR
I'm in Missouri, near St. Louis. Out west a bit. Thanks!
Oh Sorry....thought I heard you say you were in wyo....hell I can't even copy words...let alone code! But I'm workin on it!
nice tips, thanks
Thank you....good video.
Thanks for the comment.
Any way to get a copy of your script?
Checkout my web site, I think this is it maybe. hamradiocq.com/cw-qso-format-guide-cheat-sheet/
you want to learn is begali spark about 130.00 if you don't want to spand too money ! and is heavy castiron !2009 i pass my code right before they drop the codei got all all abc a to z and numbers ! i kept it off and on morse code !
now i remember it now !
thanks for these great tips. I am not sure if this question was answered, but how long did it take you to comfortably 1) read / listen 2) write / transmit. ? 73 va3thm
Ham RadioAccount I could hear and decode very slow text in probably 4 to 8 weeks of daily study when I first started. It took longer to speed up. Lack of consistent practice has kept me from being elite. Practice equals ability
Ham RadioAccount transmitting took me even longer because I didn't do jt much. Checkout my video on the Winkler that is the kind of valuable training tool you need to get better
thanks, off topic I am very glad to see content producers like you promoting alternates to centrally controlled youtube with its censorship AI .Do check out bitchute, zerofoot print and totally browser based
Did you see my videos on LBRY? It's also a good replacement for RUclips, still needs development though.
yes , i did, great one. I have also been looking into bitchute. I find bitchute great, purely because it doesnt require any software installs.
why stress Novice bandwidth when the FCC did away with the Novice License in 2000... jst curious?
okay I know they did this shit for a lot cheaper back in the day. As a person new to transmitting but studying morse code, what is the cheapest and easiest way to transmit morse code only to my grandpa? He is only 200 miles away.
I think it's just not cheap anymore for todays radios.
@@hamradiocq what's the cheapest for Morse code only that you would recommend
@@sleezymechanic check out the QCX kit from QRP-Labs.com; $49 for a single band CW transceiver - www.qrp-labs.com/qcx.html
it's a steal. I have two - a 20m and a 40m version - best for day and night, respectively.
You need to think about an antenna, though, as that is quite important...
Though the QCX will, even with only 5W, get out much further with the right antenna, as you only want to get out 200 miles or so, you have two obvious choices for antennas: a low-mounted horizontal (even as low as 8 feet should do it) will radiate almost vertically and give you a short bounce (what they call NVIS, or Near Vertical Incidence Skywave); and a half-wave vertical will give you direct - if omnidirectional - radiation at a nice low angle. NVIS only works on the lower bands, like 80m and 40m, and 80m only works at night, so I suggest you get a 40m transceiver. A quarter-wave vertical, in contrast to a half wave, is easier to put up - especially on 40m, where a half-wave is 66 feet high - but its radiation pattern is such that low angle emission isn't as good, so you might skip right over grandpa. The horizontal - which is what I use right now - is probably your best choice.
Oh, one more thing: while 5W will just about be enough for CW with NVIS, with reasonable weather conditions, if you want to go SSB you'll almost certainly need at least 20W.
Good luck!
h four dots i never count, i see it as two times two dots and when you hear 5, five dots you hear immediatly the difference i speak dutch and my english is not good but have a nice day ok
Good info
Glad it was helpful!
Please do more videos best 73s
Thanks so much!
It’s really hard for me to learn this stuff
Try wae cw contest, especialy qtc exchange, you will need more than few arrl practice.
Ok.
Going through the alphabet? The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
I don't think any dog would allow that to go unnoticed.
Oh yea. Recording is a good idea. Going to pull some QSOs off the radio.
Yep, listen listen then listen some more.
Practice 20 minutes a day
And only practice what you can not copy 100 percent
No point in practice of anything you can copy 100 percent
There is no learning what you already know
Just a waste of time
Keep practicing and pushing for what you can not quite copy
20 minutes a day
Every day
Although I agree with most - if not all - of your recommendations, you are lacking practice yourself. If you are sufficiently familiar with the sound of each character, there should not be a problem with J and 1 or V and 4. Also your iambic key skills seem to be at a novice level. With a proper iambic key, you should send a C by just squeezing the paddles in a way that you hit the right paddle (dash) first. In the demo you are sending every dash and dot separately, therefore making too many finger movements. This is why you can't speed up your code.
Finally computer decoders are a valuable tool for learning how to key clean code, but they are virtually worthless if you hook them up to a live amateur band because they miss too much. The program CwGet is doing a fair job, if properly fine-tuned.
But nevertheless, nice video! Rob PA3BSV
Do you work from home?
I work from home sporadically. Maybe 1 to 2 times per week.
7:46 golden words😁
hahahaha
Don't try to memorize a written morse code chart, it will only impede your progress in learning it. When you hear the sound think of the letter. Good luck and wishing you many enjoying contacts. 73, AH0D, Saipan
Noted!
TNX for a good CW practise ideas. I am writing everything and everywhere by CW. Traffic marks, shops names... My next step is, that I want my own CW key.
73' de OH6HFO
My Problem is the Abreviations that Hams use = Too Manny..... I know CQ, CQ, de etc.....But soon I get lost and I cant answer if I don't undestand.
I agree. I still have to look up these things every day.
For ARRL CW practice schedule: www.arrl.org/w1aw-operating-schedule
Where I get Cw key pad
EBay. Hamfests. Online. Google cw keys
Thanks! This was helpful. 73 KM4OCJ
You're welcome!
is that how an iambic key works? you press and hold and it auto repeats? so strange.
Not sure why you think it's strange; maybe because your understanding isn't complete.
It isn't the key itself, it's the "keyer" function (usually software, nowadays) in the transceiver that produces the correctly metered and spaced dits and dahs. The "twin paddle" key merely tells the keyer what to do. If you squeeze both paddles, the first identified paddle triggers the first tone, then the keyer continues to produce alternating length activations of the transmitter (we call them tones, because that's how we identify the activity; a CW transmitter doesn't actually send a tone) with the appropriate spacing, as configured by the operator in the keyer settings. The "iambic" part refers to the poetic rhythm of the "deDUM, deDUM" that results from the continuously repeating pattern. It may (or may not) interest you to know that the opposite - "DUMde DUMde" pattern is, technically speaking, "trochaic", not iambic.
So, given that it is the combination of the key and the keyer function that produces the phenomenon, if we were technically correct and complete we would call the key & keyer an "iambic/trochaic keying system".
What the heck make is that computer screeen?
ASUS 26" wide screen. I"m a programmer by trade...
Thank you for the vid, from a CW newbie. Now make your bed.
Thanks for the comment I really appreciate it.
video started at 4h20
great video. hope to see you @ Hamcation .
73
N4MMT
Why do we need CW if DIGI exists nowadays?
So we can communicate without a computer.
I think that's like asking why a dog sticks its head out of the window of a moving car: if you have to ask the question, you wouldn't understand the answer :-)
Very Helpful many thanks DE 2e0SHI 73's
Thank you!
Great presentation. 73, W7YF.
Thanks friend
Good job with the video. I just bought my first paddle and am trying to learn the letters in my head. You are right. copying and sending are two different skill sets. 73 George KB3WAQ
Yup
Tnx best 73s to u
De a71br
The guy was German and called Koch, not Kock. 73
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Why man?
Go out with your family.
You can easily travel to all countries of the world and spend precious time together.
The times where one could talk with distant countries are passed.
Surplus Firearm
And with who you are talking? And what kind of information you exchange with them?
Look at the ham fest around the world, look those ham operators here on you tube, hear them on radio. They are stacked in their chairs, incapable to talk like human beings, snobs, and overweight,. They are the principal cause, many young operators, after few months leave the hobby for good.
Idiot
Guardian Observer OK Debbie downer.
Why do you hate ham radio so much. Amateur radio theory is actually really important in electronic repair, especially with amplifiers.
@guardianobserver6593 true, or you could learn a musical instrument instead. Piano has many keys to tap
Can't watch, too many mistakes
Tnx for flagging yourself as a nasty commenter and blocked victim. See my nasty comments video cuz you made it. Congrats!
@@hamradiocq Shut up meathead.
I wasted several minutes of my life learning why you think learning morse is a good idea. Your video should reflect the content.
I doubt minutes of your life matter anyway