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A few years ago I was looking into ham radio and stumbled upon a website that had tips to learning morse code. If I remember right something how the dots and dashes related to animals starting with the certain letter. I can't find it on my searches. I'm trying to teach my scouts for a merit badge. Does anyone have any tips? Any ham radio operators out there?

thanks in advance
 
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KenBrasier said:
Jim,

See if this is what you are looking for: http://www.boyacks.com/scouting/Morse Code Training.pdf
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I could have used that when I was learning the code... we had to memorize it strictly by rote.... only help we got was the the code for "Q" was "pay day to day" (dah dah di dah)... we didn't learn it as dash dash dot dash... we were taught the dashes were "dah" and the dots were "di"

The hardest parts were the punctuation marks....
 
The code is no longer required for any ham license until you get up to either extra or advanced anymore. bummer. I had to learn it the hard way and then try to decifer it off the air. I could always send much faster than read which is very bad.
Charles
 
ctubbs said:
The code is no longer required for any ham license until you get up to either extra or advanced anymore. bummer. I had to learn it the hard way and then try to decifer it off the air. I could always send much faster than read which is very bad.
Charles
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Don't feel bad, i learned it enough to get my novice, only had to take written test to go to technician, and i can remember a single bit of code today. It was back in '89 when i got mine.
 
I don't remember a single bit nowadays. My dad had his Advanced license, and my mom has her General.

I haven't transmitted in quite a few years now. I did bring one of dads 2 meter rigs, and a 2 meter handheld back with me recently. I just havent taken the time to set it up.

KC4JXC here. I have my dads old licenses here, his novice was issued 12-30-65, WN4CAV. Then in 1967 he got his Technician license, and his call changed to WB4CAV, which he kept and never changed.
 
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I still remember most of the code I knew... I was a radio operator in the navy, so I got some pretty intense training.... Like Charles, I can send a lot faster than I can copy. To graduate from Radio School, I had to copy at 80% at 22 words per minute.... I think I got up to 81%... never got much better.
The speed key was just coming into vogue when I was on my last couple years of the navy... it never sounded like code to me, more like a tty signal. I worked on a ship out of SF for about 16 months.... the CT's up in Adak dinged me EVERY time I came up on the circuit.... I have what's called a rolling or swing fist... the rules are that you send very precise intervals... otherwise, you develop a distinctive fist on the net and since we were still in the cold war, them thar Ruskies could tell what ship was transmitting by my fist.... I never did cure that either..... so most of the time I would opt to work the telex machines.... I could type almost as fast as the TD could move a tape.
 
I would have no shot at even sending SOS. I have a friend about 70 that every saturday morning sits down at his ham radio and he and a buddy communicate using morse code for 1 hour. Amazing.
 
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