Morse Code (CW)
much prefer it to Voice, it goes further with less power. On 10 watts I can work the world direct.



www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjQfaX_Lkxw&feature=related

Actually I'm too embarrassed to add anything else except dah di diddle dit dahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh FTW !
( buffet_the_appetite_slayer ٩(●̮̃•)۶ jacked in to the ICE on, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 20:25, 17 replies)

you wanna know redundant?
I was the last course in the British army required to pass 20WPM in morse.

So, basically sarge, I have to pass this course, at 20WPM, or I don't get my signaller's pay, and can't get any kind of advance in seniority, and have to spend 6 months listening to fucking tapes on a fucking walkman like I'm communicating with moonbase alpha, and yet I also know that the day I pass the course, I not only will have to never use morse again, but there will never be anyone else to transmit it to?

We should have a bad motivation QOTW, come to think of it.
(pounana Slept well, and dreamed of large women, on, Fri 5 Nov 2010, 1:10, closed)

*rescinds*
but yes, you're quite right, you don't know geek smug until you've made comms with Cyprus using a barbed wire fence in herefordshire as a 60m skywave dipole on 5 watt send. Stick your 24meg broadband up your pipe...
(pounana Slept well, and dreamed of large women, on, Fri 5 Nov 2010, 1:13, closed)

Actually that's quite good going for NVIS
I didn't know Cyprus had the 5Mhz allocation.

www.rsgb-spectrumforum.org.uk/5mhz%20experiment.htm
( buffet_the_appetite_slayer ٩(●̮̃•)۶ jacked in to the ICE on, Fri 5 Nov 2010, 8:06, closed)

Might not have been the 60m amateur band...
... if you see what I mean.

73s de MM0YEQ
(gordonjcp, Fri 5 Nov 2010, 14:12, closed)

Oh yeah
Hereford, morse, Cyprus...... fcuk
( buffet_the_appetite_slayer ٩(●̮̃•)۶ jacked in to the ICE on, Fri 5 Nov 2010, 19:01, closed)

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(The 2-Belo OH SHI--[Sound of impact][End of recording], Fri 5 Nov 2010, 1:56, closed)

Anti social ?
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( buffet_the_appetite_slayer ٩(●̮̃•)۶ jacked in to the ICE on, Fri 5 Nov 2010, 8:03, closed)

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(gordonjcp, Fri 5 Nov 2010, 14:16, closed)

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( buffet_the_appetite_slayer ٩(●̮̃•)۶ jacked in to the ICE on, Fri 5 Nov 2010, 18:59, closed)

Once it was QSL....
...now it's a/s/l? lol wtf
(The 2-Belo OH SHI--[Sound of impact][End of recording], Tue 9 Nov 2010, 8:32, closed)

Is that REAL ebonite?
Oooh, edge drive verniers and a straight key.
(Redemption blamed it on the Bossa Nova since, Fri 5 Nov 2010, 9:22, closed)

CQ CQ CQ de VK1KEN

Well, I haven't had my amateur radio callsign since 1994 - I let that lapse back then. I did manage to get up to 12 words per minute.

73's

Ken
(Maclir, Fri 5 Nov 2010, 12:57, closed)

FB OM UR 599 001
QRZ
( buffet_the_appetite_slayer ٩(●̮̃•)۶ jacked in to the ICE on, Fri 5 Nov 2010, 19:04, closed)

KA3PVX K
I was actually disappointed when I read that you no longer had to know Morse to get a license.
(The 2-Belo OH SHI--[Sound of impact][End of recording], Tue 9 Nov 2010, 8:31, closed)

You still need to know morse for the Signals Exam for merchant navy... only at 9wpm (i think) though
(badgerlikespeed, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 14:37, closed)

Reading this thread makes me feel like a cocksure playboy
and thus I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
(Falstaff's Spiritual Successor, Fri 5 Nov 2010, 20:53, closed)

Certainly. Take your pick
www.fists.org/IssueThree2008.pdf

www.gqrp.com/The_Sprat_Pixie_File.pdf

www.raota.org/downloads/otn69x.pdf
( buffet_the_appetite_slayer ٩(●̮̃•)۶ jacked in to the ICE on, Sat 6 Nov 2010, 6:42, closed)