Morse Code
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I had real problems learning morse, until I bought the Pooley's Morse tutor for the PC, then passed the CAA exam within 10days. You can work at any speed and it generates random groups as in the exam, so unlike a tape you don't just learn the answers but actually learn the letters. Hope this helps.
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There's 2 good tools for learning Morse...
1) The Morse Code cassette - which takes you through the exercises in groups. Simple to remember ways e.g. ..-. sounds like Fetch A Fireman - i.e. F (foxtrot), -.-. sounds like Charlie Charlie etc. Great to play in the car whilst driving!
2) The PC based software program. Includes tests such as the one used in the Commercial Ground exams. The pitch and speed are very close to the exam...so this is the best once you've learned it. It's on 1 floppy disc.
Drop me an e-mail if you want to know anything further
1) The Morse Code cassette - which takes you through the exercises in groups. Simple to remember ways e.g. ..-. sounds like Fetch A Fireman - i.e. F (foxtrot), -.-. sounds like Charlie Charlie etc. Great to play in the car whilst driving!
2) The PC based software program. Includes tests such as the one used in the Commercial Ground exams. The pitch and speed are very close to the exam...so this is the best once you've learned it. It's on 1 floppy disc.
Drop me an e-mail if you want to know anything further
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I had to learn Morse code when I trained to be a ships radio officer. I remember it was a long slog but I've never forgotten it, never been of much use to me though....
Start off by learning the alphabet, opposites (N, A) is a good idea. Learn every letter at the start. Identify your "weak" letters and practice harder on those or you'll have trouble with them later on. Prcatice by trying to decode newspaper headlines or people's names (don't go up to them and say "Did you know your name is dah di dah dah etc etc", you'll lose all your friends). Get or write a PC program to practice receiving . Start slowly, as slow as a couple of words per minute. Don't be tempted to speed up until you have perfected your current speed. If you speed up too early you can make habitual errors that are very hard to shake off (like continually transposing L and F for instance).
I wouldn't recommend using tapes as you find you learn the tapes not the code, although they are better than nothing of course.
Good luck.
Start off by learning the alphabet, opposites (N, A) is a good idea. Learn every letter at the start. Identify your "weak" letters and practice harder on those or you'll have trouble with them later on. Prcatice by trying to decode newspaper headlines or people's names (don't go up to them and say "Did you know your name is dah di dah dah etc etc", you'll lose all your friends). Get or write a PC program to practice receiving . Start slowly, as slow as a couple of words per minute. Don't be tempted to speed up until you have perfected your current speed. If you speed up too early you can make habitual errors that are very hard to shake off (like continually transposing L and F for instance).
I wouldn't recommend using tapes as you find you learn the tapes not the code, although they are better than nothing of course.
Good luck.
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I learnt morse to 18wpm in RAF. Dont learn it as DOT DASH DOT as when you actualy hear it it comes across as DAH DI DIT and you wont recognise it. Also worth knowing is that some letters sound like sayings ie L "to L with it" .-.. F "Did E F*** It" ..-. etc etc.
You dont need morse of an offical test for your ATPL however try decoding a beacon without it! "Yes that was DTY as you head off to WCO"
You dont need morse of an offical test for your ATPL however try decoding a beacon without it! "Yes that was DTY as you head off to WCO"
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there are many morse tutors available for download from the internet. I was going to post an address 'til I saw just how many www.yahoo.com came up with.
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Numorse is a windows based Morse Tutor Program. Give it a try, you can slow it down to about the right speed
http://www.qrz.com/download/morse/numors14.zip
http://www.qrz.com/download/morse/numors14.zip
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Two tactics:
1. Do swear words. They are surprisingly easy to learn (.../..../../-)
2. Once you've mastered all the dots and dashes in the swear words, practice them by translating car number plates into morse.
I used the pooley's tutor for the PC once. It's REALLY good.
But why do you need to learn morse? Unless you're doing the CAA exams, you won't get formally tested on it.
1. Do swear words. They are surprisingly easy to learn (.../..../../-)
2. Once you've mastered all the dots and dashes in the swear words, practice them by translating car number plates into morse.
I used the pooley's tutor for the PC once. It's REALLY good.
But why do you need to learn morse? Unless you're doing the CAA exams, you won't get formally tested on it.
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Noggins recommendation is probably your best bet.
I used NUMORSE for the CAA morse exam and had it squared away in a couple of days.
The beauty of the program (apart from being free) is that you can make up your own blocks of letters, so if your having trouble with a certain set, you can have the program just churn out those sets until you get it cracked.
I used NUMORSE for the CAA morse exam and had it squared away in a couple of days.
The beauty of the program (apart from being free) is that you can make up your own blocks of letters, so if your having trouble with a certain set, you can have the program just churn out those sets until you get it cracked.
Do you need to learn the morse code?
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Magoo - Identing radio aids with reference to the chart IS an acceptable way of doing it otherwise the CAA/JAA wouldn't allow it. If the CAA were as concerned as they used to be about morse then they would still test us on it.
Perhaps it won't be long before morse ident is as dead as Inspector Morse....???
Got a job yet?
Perhaps it won't be long before morse ident is as dead as Inspector Morse....???
Got a job yet?