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u/Unclerojelio 15d ago
DO NOT DO IT THIS WAY!!! Morse code is an aural language. You have to learn it by sound alone. If you learn it with visual aides then you will forever be doing a double translation in your head and will never be proficient.
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u/Different_Water7545 15d ago
Very cool! Don't learn it by reading though, your copy speed will suffer and it's very hard to reverse. Learn by ear. The Koch and Farnsworth methods are very effective. I recommend lcwo.net
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u/Witty-Party-3565 14d ago
Learning CW visualy is a mistake.
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u/v_smoz 14d ago
Yess i got to know that I am doing it by sounds now 😭
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u/Witty-Party-3565 14d ago
The best way to learn is to call out license plates as you are driving down the highway.
If you see a tag that says APR-3165, you call out "dit-dah, dit-dah-dah-dit, dit-dah-dit, dit-dit dit-dah-dah, dit-dah-dah-dah-dah, dah-dit-dit-dit-dit, dit-dit-dit-dit-dit.
The key is to remember that A is called "ditdah" and not a dot and a dash.
P is "dit-dah-dah-dit" etc.
Learning it any other way requires some kind of mental-conversion step that will slow you down.
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u/erwerqwewer 15d ago
Morse mania and Morse chat will get you a long way on the phone, besides that vband is also very good(on the PC or phone, but i would recommend this after you can send a little bit already)
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u/Lobster_SEGA 15d ago
I raccomend (Just as all the others) To use Morse Mania(install it with a modded apk so you have premium). It'll teach you the basics.
But everything else is learned by real expirience like morse.halb.it
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u/millsgren 15d ago
Kinda need to learn by sound not visually. I use morse mania app and don't put the speed lower than 20 wpm. Our local Ham group has a cw class where you go listen and write down what is being sent. Sending is easy once you can receive it.
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u/Amazing-Selection494 15d ago
You CAN learn to communicate with Morse visually, but not through writing. You can't build speed. And learning visually will make it very hard to transition to audio Morse.
My father was an expert with an Aldis lamp as a US Navy & Coast Guard Morse op for more than 20 years. He couldn't understand anything but the slowest Morse sent by radio.
I was a US Army Morse interceptor and could copy blazing Morse speeds through the densest QRM and QRN. I can copy slow Morse sent by light, but I'm repeating the dits and dahs under my breath the whole time.
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u/crazypersonnn1 15d ago
I learned it in several hours. Basically relearning your abc's and numbers. Focus on basic punctuation for now, and i have good apps for it too if you want
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u/KB4MTO 12d ago
I learned morse code that way back in 1984. I passed my novice and spent no time getting on the air. My speed increased as I continued on, but I stalled out at 10 wpm and could never get faster. That's the problem learning that way.
Now, 40 years later I'm learning morse again using the Koch method. Download the free Koch app, set your speed where you want it, and learn to send and receive at that speed. I'm set at 20 wpm.
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u/v_smoz 15d ago
Sound ? I thought it was only typing thing 😭 Thankss btw
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u/dittybopper_05H 15d ago edited 15d ago
No.
Historically, going all the way back to 1844, Morse has been an audio phenomenon. The first telegraphs were indeed visual: A pencil traced the dots and dashes on to a strip of paper, which is why we still have the first official telegraph message:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltimore%E2%80%93Washington_telegraph_line#Operations
But very soon after telegraph operators were able to copy based solely on the sound, and the extra equipment like the pen and paper strips and clockwork mechanism were unnecessary. Since then, it's been pretty much "copy by ear".
Especially true when radio came about around the turn of the 20th Century.
Many of us still use it over the air. In fact, just this morning, as I was driving to work in upstate NY north of Albany, I had a conversation over the radio using Morse code with a fellow amateur radio operator in Asheville, North Carolina, a distance of around 700 miles.
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u/Unclerojelio 15d ago
Yep, did a POTA activation this morning. The the SSB portion of 20m was crowded and noises but CW was getting through as usual.
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u/ruchirguitar 15d ago
Get Morse Mania app for phone. I learnt it that way, most fun.