Different methods suit different people.Īs well as the basic Morse code (letters, numbers) you should also learn some punctuation characters. Just listened to the cassette enough, until able to copy one section. Then I stepped up the speed 1 word per minute (wpm), and generated another cassette. I wrote myself a simple computer program that would generate 5 sets of random characters, at a certain speed, for 5 minutes. and there are many ways to do this, I am sure you found one that you like already and if you didn't, please google! Look at Wikipedia too first you do have to learn the Morse alphabet. This guide will concentrate on abbreviations and practices commonly heard on air. This guide is just about getting on air as soon as possible, which I believe to be the best way, and the most FUN way, to build up confidence and competence. You can google for expert guides on all this stuff but I thought I would write a basic guide for CW beginners, since a lot of people have been inspired to have a go at CW by the low cost and high performance and features of the QCX kit. So I am reasonably competent at it but by no means an expert. At time of writing (September 2019) I have had 1,237 CW QSOs.
But I have now got a nice antenna up and been having lots more QSOs in 2019.
The antenna blew down in a winter gale and I didn't have time/inclination to put it back up, so again 2018 was a year without QSOs. Then I designed and produced the 5W CW transceiver "QCX" in the first half of 2017 and put up an antenna to operate, for testing it. Yes I could have done something but it would have required more effort and being short of time (working too hard) was another factor. Then there was another 10 year gap from 2007-2017 where I didn't have QSOs due to living in small city apartments where antennas were difficult and urban noise levels were high.
I was licensed in 1994 but did not have my first contact (QSO) until 2002.
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