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nigelisom 7th October 2006 20:48

Jabberwok
Many thanks for the morse chart, I have learnt morse but due to not using it all the time I sometimes struggle with some of the less used letters. The chart makes a excellent aid memoir.
In fact the design is pure genius in its simplicity and clarity, if you thought it up I salute you, if you blagged it from somewhere else many thanks for sharing it.
Nigel

tiggermoth 7th October 2006 22:10

That morse chart is a brilliant idea!

I learnt morse and did my morse test for my Amateur Radio licence. I also used it to a reasonable speed for quite a number of years because I couldn't afford expensive modulated (SSB) equipment.

Although I can still copy morse at speed, I find it a bit strange hearing the morse idents at such slow speed - I have to think about it. I think it's becasue one gets used to the sound of the whole letter at a particular speed, rather than thinking about the dots and the dashes.

[offtopic]Morse unfortunately is dying out from all types of radio telecommunication these days, which is a great shame. As a means of communication with the most basic of kit (costing less than two packets of cigarettes) over thousands of miles it cannot be beaten.[/offtopic]

There are plenty of morse tutors that can be freely downloaded (shareware/freeware), and it's a good effective way to learn.

jabberwok 8th October 2006 04:33


In fact the design is pure genius in its simplicity and clarity, if you thought it up I salute you, if you blagged it from somewhere else many thanks for sharing it.
I readily admit it wasn't my idea - it was one of my students. I'd been going through the Morse code with him and noticed he was writing it down in an unusual manner - a crude flow chart. When I asked him about it he just said "It seemed more logical this way."

We tidied up the format a bit and used to give it out to all club members going through the IMC Rating - and a few others too. I've seen other copies around so I am sure others have hit upon this method too.

I still use the chart as my Morse is getting worse with time - a combination of age and lack of frequent use. Like the old adage of "read from ground to map and not from map to ground" I prefer to decode what I hear rather than try to make the code fit what I see on the chart.


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