I'm a Ham radio hobbyist so it's easy for me. For new learners it can seem overwhelming until you learn the trick. Don't look, listen- morse is about sounds, not symbols. Code learning tapes are cheap and there are several freebies on the web from Ham radio websites. You'll soon find the one that works best for you.

And stop thinking of morse code as old or outdated- it is the original digital communications mode :ok:

That is not how it is supposed to work. The official way is to write the navaid's ID when preparing the plog, including the dah-di-dits if needed, then confirm them in flight.

Morse code is no more an exam subject when going for the R/T license and there's a reason for that.

(yes, I did pass a separate R/T exam. EASA PPL'ers don't need to but a microlight pilot does, at least down here.)

We all know how its supposed to work. Myself and Sawman were offering help if he wanted to learn morse. The Poster said Help with morse reguired. Just didnt want him/her to be distracted.
Incidentally I used to read at 25wpm thirty years ago, and now about 10. Was wondering where all the A class hams have gone.

In the Air Training Corps in the late 50's, I was reading Morse Code at 30 wpm.
Who else remembers...
"did it hurt you? - Freddie"
di di dah di - F

I was a Radio/Electronics officer at sea for over twenty years. Initially I found learning morse code quite easy. Keeping it is harder, good way was to mentally convert text to morse when reading. Don't do it out loud or you'll have people moving away from you :)
There was a lot more to it as we had to also learn the morse for comma, fullstop, open & close brackets, hyphen, plus sign, end of work, all numbers plus a million and one Q codes.
Just the alphabet takes a few days to learn.. Simples

CISTRS, Also 'Best Bent Wire'

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Dont forget ERROR ........ ! :ok:

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Hi, anyone learn it the RAF way, Pattern Recognition Technique,
I can remember the first 2 groups of 4 we learnt, they were PWFY, then QULB,
Do them as sounds and you will see how they fit together.

For the life of me I can't put the rest together (it was 1963 after all).

I think the last MAY have been AITE.

Figures were learnt 1234 etc.

PM

I feel I should be moving this to AH&N!

SD