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Anyone out there into charlie whiskey, ie c.w. ie morse code?

Whiskey is OK, not so much Charlie

I had to learn morse when I got my ham license (KC1MC) in the early 70's, have forgotten most of it long ago.

I too learned Morse code for my tech + radio license. The problem is that like you, I forgot it.

I had started learning morse when I was young, but after a bad experience at a ham operator's meeting I lost most of my interest for it.

I too would find club meetings tricky. I often attended a small radio club 35 years ago and mostly it was dire. The only time I was on the air ws when I got the ticket (c.w.) thirty years after passing the written test. Totally self taught, in a very isolated location.

Short wave radio was a lifeline for me, an intense interest ie costruction, antennas, swl that 'constructed' a world for me from age ten to seventeen, then my Dad died and I was booted into lodgings. was was when they chucked me out after 11 months. Fun huh!

point is, when i went on air for the firtst time eight years ago i hated the idea of putting out a signal. Also, lack of any praise from wife drove me to go beserk and trash all the gear. We still have the holes in the sitting room here to priove it. Any connection with rf and the sensitive aspi?

Di-dit, di-dah dah-dah, di-dah-di-dit dit di-dit di-dah-dit dah-dit di-dit dah-dit dah-dah-dit, dah di-di-di-dit di-dit di-di-dit, di-di-dah-dit di-dah-dit dah-dah-dah dah-dah, di-dah-dah di-dit dah-di-dah di-dit di-dah-dah-dit dit dah-di-dit dit di-dah dah-di-dah-di-dah-dah

Prizes go to anyone who can translate that*

*You don't win a prize

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"I am learning this from jikip edeakw".

I did a project on morse code back in the sixth grade. My dad and I built my own machine out of a batary, some wires and a small light.

The only thing I still remember is SOS.

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Charlie whiskey ie cw(continuous wave) ie morse code was very difficult for me to learn. Struggled age thirteen to sixteen then again age forty two - when at last it sunk in, walking the dog was a good time to run thro it in my mind.

Experienced operators can get thro a lot of data very fast, quicker than speaking. Abbreviations are used, it actually becomes enjoyable. I miss it. A one valve transmitter can reach thousands of miles if the conditions, eleven year sunspot cycle is right.

I met an old lady on the estate here, very bright, a bit above what you'ed meet around here. Lo and behold she had been a cw operator during the war, she was delighted i knew her language and she told me she still thought in cw. She moved, mybe she's dead now. She said she valued our conversations. Another man, I gardened for, he was at Bletchley an ultra secret establishment that originally in the war allowed us Brits to crack the codes of the Germans. Then later they were lisrening to the Russians. He died in May and i cried my eyes out.

Yep.

25 wpm, when I took my general.

I still break out the Kalamazoo brass key, that my dad rescued from a british destroyer before the scrapped her, from time to time.

Anyone have good tips to learn CW? I upgraded after the requirement was gone. With the practice CDs, I'd always end up memorizing the answers instead of the code.

Give me a mobile phone that can do morse instead if pre-emptive texting.

I did consider creating an operating system takes input/output in pure morse

Walking, driving, talk to yourself in cw. look at things, car regs send them in cw. Listen onair. I have a commercial 'morse tutor' machine that send machine/chip generated cw - awful actually as its so 'm/c generated' - I much prefer to hear a real human

Obsolete.

Not obsolete sunshine, merely superseded. When Bin Ladens pulse atomic bombs wipe out everything silicon - the man with a tube tx (transmitter to you) will still get through. Its actually a interesting and rewarding skill to acquire. Its faster than anything spoken and has the ability to get through the most difficult atmospheric and/or man made interference when all other modes fail. You shd acquire the skill yourself.

ya daily practice.
listen to the arrl broadcasts

listen on 80 meters.

even better

work 4 qsos everyday, until you make it.