See and hear Morse Code

A video I created to help myself learn Morse Code.
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Video as seen on BBC about Morse Code, sometimes called CW. Enjoy!

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  5. Tm30w06
    Tm30w06 says:

    Ok now thats just classy! No better way to get excited about ham then to see something simple like CW being put to good use. Very very cool !

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  10. fatkinson1954
    fatkinson1954 says:

    @ukorganist

    It is some type of automatic key. It could be a ‘bug’.

    Push right with the thumb and it starts sending ‘dits’ at the correct speed and will continue to as long as you hold it to the right.

    Push left with the thumb and one of two things happen (depending on which type of key you have). Either it will send ‘dahs’ over and over again until you release it or you will manually make the ‘dahs’.

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  15. namdogtag
    namdogtag says:

    Extremely nice video…nicely put together…… 99.1% of my QSOs since having my license since age 16 has been on CW……QSO’ed with my friends in Europe on CW down through the years and really enjoy it…..73 All the best…Harold K8ese, San Jose, California

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  16. petchharrison
    petchharrison says:

    m6glh i am a student of cw morse. i am musical i sing tennor, so its like comming home,will morse die no, new hams like me are flocking too it cant get trainers. i hope to be a instructor one day. i have a kent strait key, dont learn on a paddle key learn on a strait key first. get a good key like a kent dont get a cheep one, only the best will do you get what you pay for. it will last you a lifetime jeff

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  17. rhonan
    rhonan says:

    @ukorganist That is an electronic keyer with built in iambic paddles. While the old standard straight key is still around, and has its fans, electronic keyers are quite popular too. The advantage electronic keyers offer is that their dots and dashes are formed by the circuit, so they are always the exact same length, so you get very precise code. The keyer plugs into the transmitter just like a straight key would.

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  20. 2e0bax
    2e0bax says:

    I used to be a member of Stockport Radio Society, Bernard G3SHF helped me gain my M3 and 2E0 call signs.
    CW as old as it is still outperforms many other modes, If your really lucky you can hear me using CW on the air! Sean M0GIA

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  21. G0IFI
    G0IFI says:

    The amateur who never bothered to learn the code is missing half the hobby. I read on the website of a chap with a G7 callsign the other day that ‘only a handful of amateurs still use CW’ which I found pretty hilarious. Just because you don’t read it doesn’t mean it’s not there old son! It’s still the most efficient mode we have, and it’s no less fun today than it was 100 years ago to make a contact with flea power on a little rig you botched together at the weekend.

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  24. icekat83
    icekat83 says:

    I wonder what is says in the background. It beeps through the entire broadcast so I wonder if it’s a real message or just gibberish. 🙂 I can’t even tell where one character ends and another begins.

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  25. an97an
    an97an says:

    @HaLoCaLlOFDutY4
    Goto radioshack or equivilant. Pick up a buzzer. A momentary push switch and a battery casing and an old cd. Saw the CD with thin file so you can screw in the push button (not a switch). Then wire the three in a circuit and tape to the CD. Enjoy!

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  26. rod3067
    rod3067 says:

    i’m making a morse code program in c++, as as i finish i’ll upload it to a serve and yo will be able to get it for free.

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  28. Dr4Mm3R4EveR
    Dr4Mm3R4EveR says:

    A little question! What is the time between two letter? Is the next letter start immediately or there is a *pause* between?
    Thx for the answer!

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  32. gyreenedoc
    gyreenedoc says:

    Does anyone here know where i could find those paper tapes to run on
    instructograph machines to learn morse?
    thank you………..

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