Learning Morse Code

1. FISTS Down Under
2. LCWO Online Training
3. Traning Applications
4. Android Training Apps
5. Morse Abbreviations
6. References

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FISTS Down Under

LCWO Online Training

LCWO provides Morse telegraphy (CW) online traing. It is browser based so you require internet access. The site track your progress with various statistical functions. You are required to sign up for a free account to start learning or improving your CW.

LCWO.net - Learn Morse Code (CW) Online: https://lcwo.net/

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Traning Applications

xcwcp is part of the unixcw project The project provids the libcw library and a set of programs using the library: cw, cwgen, cwcp and xcwcp. The programs areintended for people who want to learn receiving and sending Morse code. The source repositary cane be found at: https://sourceforge.net/projects/unixcw/

xcwcp man page:
http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/trusty/man1/xcwcp.1.html

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Android Training Apps

I have found these apps usefull on the mobile phone.

Learn Morse Code - G0HYN Learn Morse:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.g0hyn.g0hyn_morse&hl=en_AU


Morse CT:
https://morse-ct.en.uptodown.com/android

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Morse Abbreviations

• AR - End of message
• AS - Stand by
• BK - Invite receiving station to transmit
• BT - Pause; break for text
• KA - Beginning of message
• KN - End of the transmission
• CL - Going off the air (clear)
• CQ - Calling any amateur radio station
• K - Go, invite any station to transmit
• KN - Go only, invite a specific station to transmit
• R - All received OK
• SK - End of contact (sent before call)
• VE - Understood

• KN -.--. passes the transmitting over to a single station
• K -.- passes the transmitting over
• C -.-. correct, affirmative
• CL -.-. .-.. closing down (with space). The station does not intend to keep on using the frequency.
• N -. no, negative
• BK -...-.- break in
• BT -...- break point (=), do not confuse with -....- hyphen
• CT -.-.- commence traffic, starting to transmit, or start of a message. ct is not used very often.
• AR .-.-. end of message, this prosign is superfluous in informal CW traffic. In networks that exchange formal telegrams (qtc) the ar prosign ends a qtc. ar is still used in such qtc nets but also outside them. Different op have different opinions about it and use it differently.
• SK ...-.- transmission finished. No reply expected. This ends a qso. The station may change frequency or may restart calling cq on this frequency.
• VE ...-. understood, correctly received, German: verstanden
• R .-. roger/received (occasionally r is transmit with an extra pause (. -.) after the first dot.
• AS .-... wait (a second)
• error ........ 8 dots is the prosign for errors.

The correct use is to put the error sign after an error and to repeat the last correct word. This practice is rarely observed in ham radio, usually an incorrect word is corrected by transmitting the correct word afterwards plus one or two repetitions of the correct word. At times the error prosign is replaced by a short sequence of dots with spaces.

The 'r' is often used as a habit an does not necessarily mean that your qso partner has understood the entire message (though it should mean exactly this).

A Six Week Morse Course

The purpose of the exercises is not to memorize the letters, but to establish an automatic reaction of your brain as you listen to them. Such automated reaction is achieved only by means of repetition. Keep in mind that relatively few people are able to establish this process automatically in a short time.

• Week 1.
• Week 2.
• Week 3.
• Week 4 - QHFY characters
• Week 5.
• Week 6.

Books and Aticles on Morse Code

References