When I was a Boy Scout and working on first class rank in 1965, you had to learn Morse, or Semaphore. Who wants to wave flags? So I memorized he code and passed first class. An assistant Scoutmaster who was a neighbor knew I was a broadcast station listener and showed up at he house one day with a cool looking old black receiver, a BC348 which he gave me One day I was tuning around and found some really really slow code that I could sort of copy. I realized his wasn't commercial or military it was just guys talking! Mr sweet inform d they were Hams! I listened a LOT AND THE REST IS HISTORY! I had a 15wpm sped before I even took my novice!
Ronnie W5SUN Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 31, 2017, at 1:54 PM, Alan <n...@sonic.net> wrote: > > I learned Morse code the "wrong" way. I had built a Knight-Kit Star Roamer, > a very simple tube-type shortwave receiver that was mainly for AM reception > but could "kind-of" receive CW. In the back of the manual they had the Morse > code written out in dots and dashes. > > So I memorized a couple of letters (E and T since they were the simplest) and > started listening. Every once in awhile I could hear a letter that sounded > like a single dot or dash, so I was pretty sure those were E and T. > > Then I added a few more letters hoping to hear a complete word. I think the > first complete word I copied was "THE". Then I added more and more > characters (starting with the most common ones) until I had the complete > alphabet, numbers and symbols. > > One advantage of this method is you never get caught on a speed "plateau" > because you are listening at full speed from the beginning. > > Alan N1AL > > > >> On 10/31/2017 11:26 AM, rkr...@johngalt.biz wrote: >>> On 10/31/2017 2:02 PM, engineercm wrote: >>> Thank you so much for articulating the magic about CW. >> As a teen I tried to learn Morse Code and never was able to get very far. >> With Morse as a condition for getting a license, I never thought about >> getting a Ham License although I was very heavy into electronics and got my >> First Class Radiotelephone License. (To show my age, the testing only had >> one transistor question; all the rest were tubes.) >> When I discovered that Morse Code had been removed as a requirement (2014 or >> so) I began studying for my tests and made Extra within a few months. >> I have K3S that I am about to put on the air, on SSB to begin because that >> is what I currently understand. >> I have had CW recommended, but am unwilling to repeat the head banging >> experience I went through 50+ years ago. >> Now that I've given the history, my question to those of you who are gung-ho >> on CW is; how did you begin the learning process? Is there some secret that >> I missed? >> 73 >> Ray >> KK4WPB > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to w5...@comcast.net ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
