On Dec 12, 10:12*pm, RHF wrote:
On Dec 12, 7:01*pm, SC Dxing wrote: It is still used but it's no longer a requirement to get a HAM
license. If you flip inbetween the broadcast bands, you're find some.
Having SSB on your radio will make the morse a lot more copyable.

The one advantage morse code still has over voice is that you can
understand morse on a weak signal when voice or data won't come in
well. Morse also takes up less bandwidth than voice and less power to
transmit over an equal distance.

- A lot of the morse you will hear now is computer generated,
- not so much hand keyers anymore, although I'm sure there
- are some out there.

Computer {Keyboard} Generated and Computer and
most likely Generated {On-the-Screen} Decoded too.
*.

I remember when I learned morse code back in 83, the hand senders
would have their own accents from countries just like the language. I
haven't heard a hand sender yet with my revival in shortwave. Just
bots or computerized generated morse. I sure am rusty with morse
though..... I seem to have to think about characters before typing
them which really slows me down. I'll have to get some software to
help me get efficient again.

In message
, SC
Dxing writes
On Dec 12, 10:12*pm, RHF wrote:
On Dec 12, 7:01*pm, SC Dxing wrote: It is still
used but it's no longer a requirement to get a HAM
license. If you flip inbetween the broadcast bands, you're find some.
Having SSB on your radio will make the morse a lot more copyable.

The one advantage morse code still has over voice is that you can
understand morse on a weak signal when voice or data won't come in
well. Morse also takes up less bandwidth than voice and less power to
transmit over an equal distance.

- A lot of the morse you will hear now is computer generated,
- not so much hand keyers anymore, although I'm sure there
- are some out there.

Computer {Keyboard} Generated and Computer and
most likely Generated {On-the-Screen} Decoded too.
*.

I remember when I learned morse code back in 83, the hand senders
would have their own accents from countries just like the language. I
haven't heard a hand sender yet with my revival in shortwave. Just
bots or computerized generated morse. I sure am rusty with morse
though..... I seem to have to think about characters before typing
them which really slows me down. I'll have to get some software to
help me get efficient again.

I've held my radio amateur licence since 1960, but have never been very
good at morse. However, now I've got a bit more time on my hands, I am
trying to brush up my skill and, in my spare moments, have been doing
some 'SWLing' on the morse parts of the amateur bands. I recently-bought
Eton E5 receiver is handy for use in places like the toilet, where
listening to morse makes a change from reading a book or the daily
paper.

I can confirm that, although many countries no longer require morse in
order to get the licence, there certainly is a heck of a lot of morse
still used by radio amateurs. It's certainly NOT a dying art. For
beginners, the main problem is finding transmissions which are slow
enough to be understood. Fortunately, there are dozens of excellent
freeware computer programs which generate morse for you to practise
with, and allow you work up your speed.

There are also a lot of morse decoder programs which take your receiver
audio output and display it as text. Even if you are getting quite good
at morse, and are pretty good at decoding it 'in your head', the display
of the text 'subtitles' provides an instant indication of how you are
doing. Some programs indicate the speed of the received morse, and I was
surprised that I now seem to be able to copy quite a lot at up to 20wpm.
--
Ian

Ian Jackson wrote:

There are also a lot of morse decoder programs which take your receiver
audio output and display it as text. Even if you are getting quite good
at morse, and are pretty good at decoding it 'in your head', the display
of the text 'subtitles' provides an instant indication of how you are
doing. Some programs indicate the speed of the received morse, and I was
surprised that I now seem to be able to copy quite a lot at up to 20wpm.

I don't think there's a radio made that doesn't call it "CW". The VBR
binary system invented by S. F. B. Morse for electric clicker DC wire
communications might resemble CW at first glance, but modern CW is quite
different.

On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 21:44:00 -0800 (PST), SC Dxing
wrote:

On Dec 12, 10:12*pm, RHF wrote:
On Dec 12, 7:01*pm, SC Dxing wrote: It is still used but it's no longer a requirement to get a HAM
license. If you flip inbetween the broadcast bands, you're find some.
Having SSB on your radio will make the morse a lot more copyable.

The one advantage morse code still has over voice is that you can
understand morse on a weak signal when voice or data won't come in
well. Morse also takes up less bandwidth than voice and less power to
transmit over an equal distance.

- A lot of the morse you will hear now is computer generated,
- not so much hand keyers anymore, although I'm sure there
- are some out there.

Computer {Keyboard} Generated and Computer and
most likely Generated {On-the-Screen} Decoded too.
*.

I remember when I learned morse code back in 83, the hand senders
would have their own accents from countries just like the language. I
haven't heard a hand sender yet with my revival in shortwave. Just
bots or computerized generated morse. I sure am rusty with morse
though..... I seem to have to think about characters before typing
them which really slows me down. I'll have to get some software to
help me get efficient again.

Try CPWin http://www.xertech.net/Projects/CPwin.html

W1AW sends codes practice lessons on week days..
Several times a day and many bands..
also code bulletins..
check www.arrl.org for the frequencies and times ..
or check QST

--
Thanks & 73
Hank WD5JFR

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On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 21:44:00 -0800 (PST), SC Dxing
wrote:

On Dec 12, 10:12 pm, RHF wrote:
On Dec 12, 7:01 pm, SC Dxing wrote: It is still
used but it's no longer a requirement to get a HAM
license. If you flip inbetween the broadcast bands, you're find
some.
Having SSB on your radio will make the morse a lot more copyable.

The one advantage morse code still has over voice is that you can
understand morse on a weak signal when voice or data won't come in
well. Morse also takes up less bandwidth than voice and less power
to
transmit over an equal distance.

- A lot of the morse you will hear now is computer generated,
- not so much hand keyers anymore, although I'm sure there
- are some out there.

Computer {Keyboard} Generated and Computer and
most likely Generated {On-the-Screen} Decoded too.
.

I remember when I learned morse code back in 83, the hand senders
would have their own accents from countries just like the language. I
haven't heard a hand sender yet with my revival in shortwave. Just
bots or computerized generated morse. I sure am rusty with morse
though..... I seem to have to think about characters before typing
them which really slows me down. I'll have to get some software to
help me get efficient again.

Try CPWin http://www.xertech.net/Projects/CPwin.html

On Dec 13, 5:47 am, "Henry Kolesnik"
wrote:
-
- W1AW sends codes practice lessons on week days..
- Several times a day and many bands..
- also code bulletins..
- check www.arrl.org
- for the frequencies and times ..
- or check QST
-
- --
- Thanks & 73
- Hank WD5JFR
-

HK,

"W1AW" is a very good Tip and Link for those who
want to Listen To and Learn Morse Code.