morse code
Joined: Jul 2006
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From: up in the sky
try this link, its nice to learn audioable morse code
http://www.philtulga.com/morse.html
wish you good luck
http://www.philtulga.com/morse.html
wish you good luck
Joined: Apr 2000
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From: South of YSSY
I learned Morse by sound, not by dots and dashes on a sheet of paper. Began with my amateur radio licence, then did a Marine Operator's Certificate and finally managed to read 28 words per minute fluently. Mostly at sea we used speeds in the range of 16-18wpm.
Morse and music have much in common. A musical pitch, speed, rhythm, a beat, even certain passages of morse become as familiar as the opening bars of your favourite pieces of music. I haven't used Morse for over 12 years now, but even now I can remember the opening Morse for a Sydneyradio traffic list on 476Khz. You didn't read individual letters, it was just a long string of familiar characters that were always the same which preceeded the traffic list. Unforgettable.
So, to learn morse, learn it as an aural language, as if you lived in a country where Morse was a spoken language and you heard it all day, every day. Steep yourself in it and it will sink in and you won't be able to stop it. I used a HF communications receiver tuned to the 8Mhz marine band and listened whilst I was washing dishes, so my wet hands couldn't write down the characters, I had to learn to read them in my head. That works. For aviation you only need very slow Morse, so it shouldn't take too long.
There was a great little device back in the 1980s called the Datong Morse Tutor; a pale blue plastic box which generated random five-letter or mixed letter-number groups at any speed desired at the turn of a knob.The radio amateurs lapped them up. If you can find one they are a real help to learning the code. These days it's getting very hard to find Morse on the HF bands, although the mainland Chinese coast stations still come through on 8Mhz at night, here in Australia.
Morse and music have much in common. A musical pitch, speed, rhythm, a beat, even certain passages of morse become as familiar as the opening bars of your favourite pieces of music. I haven't used Morse for over 12 years now, but even now I can remember the opening Morse for a Sydneyradio traffic list on 476Khz. You didn't read individual letters, it was just a long string of familiar characters that were always the same which preceeded the traffic list. Unforgettable.
So, to learn morse, learn it as an aural language, as if you lived in a country where Morse was a spoken language and you heard it all day, every day. Steep yourself in it and it will sink in and you won't be able to stop it. I used a HF communications receiver tuned to the 8Mhz marine band and listened whilst I was washing dishes, so my wet hands couldn't write down the characters, I had to learn to read them in my head. That works. For aviation you only need very slow Morse, so it shouldn't take too long.
There was a great little device back in the 1980s called the Datong Morse Tutor; a pale blue plastic box which generated random five-letter or mixed letter-number groups at any speed desired at the turn of a knob.The radio amateurs lapped them up. If you can find one they are a real help to learning the code. These days it's getting very hard to find Morse on the HF bands, although the mainland Chinese coast stations still come through on 8Mhz at night, here in Australia.
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From: ---
The Dutch had to do a morse test for their CPL until something like 1998.
5 or 6 words per minute, so not high speed, but enough to give you a headache to prepare for the exam.
5 or 6 words per minute, so not high speed, but enough to give you a headache to prepare for the exam.
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From: ---
Here's a link to a freeware program; we used the sam a couple years back!
http://www.stormy.ca/morse/
http://www.stormy.ca/morse/
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From: Ayrshire, Scotland
Try:
Eagles In Spaces High
Towering Mountains Occupy
A Weighty Joint Uncut Veal
Never Devoured By Greater Zeal
Rural Policeman Leaving Farm
Keenly eXpectant Yet Quite Calm
Convert the caps into morse. Hope this helps - it helped me in the ATPL exams when morse was a subject.
Eagles In Spaces High
Towering Mountains Occupy
A Weighty Joint Uncut Veal
Never Devoured By Greater Zeal
Rural Policeman Leaving Farm
Keenly eXpectant Yet Quite Calm
Convert the caps into morse. Hope this helps - it helped me in the ATPL exams when morse was a subject.
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From: Canada
You might contact a local amateur radio club. Morse or CW is still required for advanced amateur licenses and perhaps there are classes. I passed my Canadian amateur exam at 10 wpm when I was 29 by listening to a morse practice LP and then listening to the amateur freqencies. 40 meters is excellent for this with lots of CW activity.
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From: Seat 1A or 1B
I'm with autothrottle, I take it you had the same tape made by the elderly sounding gentleman who came across as either a mad uncle or eccentric maths master at school.
Anyone else remember sitting in that bloody portakabin outside the CAA at LGW trying to make sense of that ancient tape recorder during the ATPL navs. the tape was so worn and stretched the dots were dashes !
Anyone else remember sitting in that bloody portakabin outside the CAA at LGW trying to make sense of that ancient tape recorder during the ATPL navs. the tape was so worn and stretched the dots were dashes !
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From: S Warwickshire
I learnt using the Dauntless software http://www.dauntless-soft.com/PRODUC...orse/index.asp
It costs a few pounds, but got me upto speed in a couple of evenings. It cunningly spots your mistakes and adapts to fix them as you're going along.
Beacon idents are very slow, as was the CPL signals test.
No harm in learning, and not much to learn.
It costs a few pounds, but got me upto speed in a couple of evenings. It cunningly spots your mistakes and adapts to fix them as you're going along.
Beacon idents are very slow, as was the CPL signals test.
No harm in learning, and not much to learn.
