And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Many, many HAMs use CW (Morse). https://www.qrz.com/db/KJ4ADN ... scroll down about 1/2 way, there's a wall chart, with easy-to-learn DaDit, instead of DotDash. Even has the commonly used abbreviations.
The worst possible way to learn Morse is visually. Learn it by sound with letters sent at about 15 words/minute and spaced much farther apart so that you don't subconsciously count the dits and dahs.
My Dad said when he was a cadet in the US Army Air Corps in 1942, the Morse code instructor sat at the front of the room and transmitted excerpts from a "dirty magazine" at increasingly faster speeds.
It is permanently etched into my brain from Ft Devens MA 1968
ReplyDeleteMany, many HAMs use CW (Morse). https://www.qrz.com/db/KJ4ADN ... scroll down about 1/2 way, there's a wall chart, with easy-to-learn DaDit, instead of DotDash. Even has the commonly used abbreviations.
ReplyDeleteEvery one should know s.o.s.
ReplyDeleteI do, but I prefer voice.
ReplyDeleteThe worst possible way to learn Morse is visually. Learn it by sound with letters sent at about 15 words/minute and spaced much farther apart so that you don't subconsciously count the dits and dahs.
ReplyDeleteMy Dad said when he was a cadet in the US Army Air Corps in 1942, the Morse code instructor sat at the front of the room and transmitted excerpts from a "dirty magazine" at increasingly faster speeds.
ReplyDeletelearned it back in '52, still fluent @ ~18wpm
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