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I am sure this will be of interest to approximately 0 people however I am buzzing a bit right now - I geek out easily though - so I don't care!
I joined something called the CWOPS Academy to learn morse code as I've been trying to get it nailed for 5 years or more. My first class was 21 May and just now I have had my first CW conversation on air.
Yes it was clunky but we at least exchanged details (I think)!!
Really very satisfying 🙂. My brain does still just about function it would seem.
As you were - the world is not changed one bit from this 🙂
73 de Danny M0SDB
Morse always looks incredibly difficult to me! Congratulations! Always a boost to realise you can still learn something new and actually be OK at it! 👍
Always great to learn something new so...congratulations!
Or should that be - dot dash dit dah...
My grandad was in the signals at the end of the war. In his latter years he would tap Morse on his chairs arm. No idea what he was tapping
Impressive. Well done.
So, do you know who the murderer is at the start of every Inspector Morse episode? 🙂
Well done dah de dah de G0UKL
a girl I used to know came from a long line of morse code operators, she insisted on learning it even though it's essentially an obsolete skill nowadays, but she did it 'cos her Dada did it.
Groan^
Dad was a morse operator on a convoy escort/minesweeper in the war. He never lost the skill.
I tried to learn semaphore during lockdown. It was more tiring than it looked. I was flagging after the first few minutes.
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he insisted on learning it even though it’s essentially an obsolete skill nowadays
It is not entirely obsolete. There are times in ham radio when only CW will get through so it has a use.
Admittedly it isn't something that is widely used anymore but plenty of operators use it pretty much exclusively and is just a hobby thing these days.
My dad did his national service in the signals, 1958-60 sat on the East German border. He can still remember morse code 62 years later having never used it since.
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I think that says it all. Well done again.
For those lesser mortals(like myself) wishing to cheat.
http://www.unit-conversion.info/texttools/morse-code/
@theotherjonv:
she did it ‘cos her Dada did it.
Jesus christ. I'd have been ashamed of that one, and I have no shame.
Well played. 😁
My grandad was in the signals at the end of the war. In his latter years he would tap Morse on his chairs arm. No idea what he was tapping
Congratulations on a new skill.
My grandpa was a signaller in his late teens somewhere in France during the first world war. With HQ behind the lines rather than in the front line.
I still have his morse key on my desk
@dannybgoode it's very elegant isn't it. And such simple technology.
Here's a pic of the underside - the connecting wires no longer in place.
And maker's mark, AW Gamage of Holborn who made keys for the military:
