Learn Morse Code
Jun 14, 2013 08:09:14 #
phil7782 wrote:
This something I've always wanted to learn...
This site has some very interesting tips...
Check out the attached sheet for an example.
http://www.learnmorsecode.info/
Something to do.
Phil
This site has some very interesting tips...
Check out the attached sheet for an example.
http://www.learnmorsecode.info/
Something to do.
Phil
I was a radio operator in the USAF for five years and we used the morse code to communicate. First, you need to hear the code as dits and dahs, not dits and dashes. After awhile the code sounds like somebody "talking" to you. You will develop your own style of sending morse code and you will be able to identify senders of morse code by their unique style. For example: SOS (dit dit dit dah dah dah dit dit dit) will sound like ditty de dit dah dah dah ditty de dit.
Jun 14, 2013 09:14:15 #
Reminds me of my time in the service (late 60's), where they taught me to type and take code at the same time. Had to take it by hand, too..., but learning to type and take code was interestingly fun.
Even today, when I hear code in a movie or on TV, I mentally transcribe it to see if its actually transmitting something that makes sense or not. Such are the afflicted... :-D
Even today, when I hear code in a movie or on TV, I mentally transcribe it to see if its actually transmitting something that makes sense or not. Such are the afflicted... :-D
Jun 14, 2013 09:19:32 #
Hal81 wrote:
Never seen that before. Had to learn the code when I first went in the navy. But that was long long time ago. I got out in 54. One I always rembered was the dit dit dit dah dah dah dit dit dit.The national distress signal SOS.
To split hairs, this is not quite right. What you've sent as "dit dit dit dah dah dah dit dit dit" would be copied as "e e e t t t e e e." To send the distress call you'd send didididadadadididit. It should be sent 'all run together' as one 'letter' this makes it a very distinctive sound.
And - to the OP, phil7782 - if you REALLY want to learn Morse Code, and be able to send & receive messages. Learn the SOUNDS of the letters, numbers, punctuation marks & other special characters. IF you try to learn the 'dots & dashes' visually, it really Really REALLY makes it difficult to learn the sounds. Learning the . & _ would be a lot like trying to learn to Hear and Speak another language, by reading a translation of that new language to your language.
I base my comments on 35+ yrs experience as a ham radio operator.
Jun 14, 2013 09:37:15 #
twowindsbear wrote:
To split hairs, this is not quite right. What you... (show quote)
You're absolutely right! But, if you notice, I divided the S O S and you ran yours together which is the most common form of sending the distress signal. My version simply emphazies the urgency in the call. This is what I meant by an operator having his/her method of "speaking" with morse code.
Jun 14, 2013 10:55:10 #
phil7782 wrote:
This something I've always wanted to learn...
This site has some very interesting tips...
Check out the attached sheet for an example.
http://www.learnmorsecode.info/
Something to do.
Phil
This site has some very interesting tips...
Check out the attached sheet for an example.
http://www.learnmorsecode.info/
Something to do.
Phil
There are also some abbreviations that made using Morse a bit less cumbersome. I'm posting a link to some, but it does not appear to be comprehensive, since I remember "say again" being abbreviated "sa" as when the receiver didn't get the previous transmission:
Abbreviations:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morse_code_abbreviations
Jun 14, 2013 11:00:15 #
On board our ship, the Signalmen always preferred Semaphore to the Blinker Light. Not the range of the light, but MUCH faster...
Phil
Phil
Jun 14, 2013 11:03:12 #
phil7782 wrote:
This something I've always wanted to learn...
This site has some very interesting tips...
Check out the attached sheet for an example.
http://www.learnmorsecode.info/
Something to do.
Phil
This site has some very interesting tips...
Check out the attached sheet for an example.
http://www.learnmorsecode.info/
Something to do.
Phil
And then, since so many Americans can expect some jail time in their lives, Tap Code is similar to Morse, but easier to learn:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tap_code
Jun 14, 2013 12:26:35 #
When I was at Ft Gordon the training was very similar. To graduate you had to take 35wpm. Training included all types of radios and were in units such as a TRK24 and TRK26. We did the Morse code training in a wooden barracks on the 2nd floor. It got pretty intense one day for one trainee. He was sitting with earphones on taking code, took off the phones, got up went to a nearby window, opened it went back to the recording device, picked it up, went to the window and threw it out. went back to his area picked up the earphones and chair and threw them out as well. Then he climbed to the window sill and jumped. Got himself a Section 8. Those were in the days of Army life back in 1963 FT Gordon. Took a tour of the Signal School Museum while in GA this past April. No mention of this incident. Wonder why.
Jun 14, 2013 12:54:12 #
ceallachain wrote:
When I was at Ft Gordon the training was very simi... (show quote)
Great story. Thank you!
Jun 14, 2013 20:29:54 #
We had to type 15 WPM to proceed in "R" branch at Pensacola in '63. I could do it with pencil and paper but they insisted that I use a typewriter.
Jun 14, 2013 20:53:56 #
Hal81 wrote:
Never seen that before. Had to learn the code when I first went in the navy. But that was long long time ago. I got out in 54. One I always rembered was the dit dit dit dah dah dah dit dit dit.The national distress signal SOS.
Thats cause you were on a Tin Can Hal, :lol:
Jun 15, 2013 08:01:47 #
I had got fairly heavy into Morse in the early 70's when getting my HAM license. Think it was 5 words per minute for Amatuer , 13 for General and 20 for Ex. Becomes another language if you stay with it. Never really got past about 30 per even though it was my preferred method of contact about the world.
When people started using computers to send instead of by hand with either a manual or electric key, I lost interest. Many times you could tell whom was sending by their accent. I was WB5TGX till I dropped everything.
First thing I was taught, Never send faster than you can receive. ;0)
When people started using computers to send instead of by hand with either a manual or electric key, I lost interest. Many times you could tell whom was sending by their accent. I was WB5TGX till I dropped everything.
First thing I was taught, Never send faster than you can receive. ;0)
Jun 15, 2013 11:48:14 #
Jun 15, 2013 21:41:36 #
The rule for us was never send faster than the slowest person in the net could take the code. Once of Signal School I was stationed at the transmitter site in Ft Knox. We were responsible every 2400 hours to send and receive a message to the AEC stationed in Kentucky. Never fail, while I was there the person at the AEC would call us and asked us what we sent. Then he would send an ACK. Unbelievable. When I got there in June of "64 the guy I relieved told me that was how things were. When I left in Oct. '65 I told the guy who relieved me. I assumed this went on for many years after I got out.
Jun 15, 2013 21:46:39 #
ceallachain wrote:
The rule for us was never send faster than the slo... (show quote)
Funny ...and then ...maybe not! :roll:
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