Originally Posted by
NRU74
Originally Posted by
SASless
How were you taught Morse Code?
60 years on I can still remember the sequence - PWFY,QLUB,DXRS,MJGZ,CHKVN and AOITE followed by 1-5 and 6-0 followed by the punctuation.
It must have been a very tedious task, On day one we had di dah dah dit (P) three times at about 20wpm but with longish pauses in between.and he then wrote a P on the blackboard.It took about ten weeks to learn the alphabet etc.
It was taught by Charlie Wilcox at Topcliffe and he'd taught Morse some 20 years earlier in the Tram Sheds at Blackpool to WOp/AGs
And learning words with the same syllables as the sound, ie q - God save the Queen, - - .- L = to hell with it .-.. f- fetch a fireman --.- h - Piccadilly .... d - Dad did it -.. w = you wank*er ,-- C - Charlie Charlie.-.-. 3- trinity car park ...-- 4- I'm a phuking four ....- etc. 18 WPM minimum pass, ended with about 22 WPM receiving and 27 WPM sending. Our instructor, joined as National Service and was still serving as a MAEop in 1982. He could send a lot faster on a semi-automatic key, which moved to the left gave dits and to the right gave dahs. Thank you MAEop D Murga****d!