Close your eyes...only then can you learn. This man is a Jedi! Thank you sir.

Wow. Excellent advice. The mind is a wonderful thing, once you learn how to teach it. Beauty of nature. It created a machine that can teach itself: THE BRAIN Bonus material: Most of us own one! My Dad was WD50 till he died in 1991. He loved his radio room, and hated my computers and electric guitar....

THE BEST EVER ADVICE I EVER FOUND when learning Morse was in this video. I had started to learn Morse with a WPM of 18 and a spacing of 15. After watching this, I changed it to 30WPM with a spacing of 10 and it was the BEST DECISION I ever made!!! My brain just instantly translates the sounds into letters... I cannot thank K6BFA enough for that tip. The spacing is needed at first, NOT so you have time to "think" about what letter it is, but just because I have to think about which key on the keyboard, but you can start to close that gap pretty quickly. The spacing also helps because sometimes I hit the wrong key, and it gives me enough time to backspace and fix. I've noticed when this happens, that my brain can actually "buffer" the next letter without me even thinking about it. I'm only up to 10 characters (Koch method) but adding new letters fast. Still mixing up Ps and Ls sometimes though!

Especially the advice to listen 30 wpm code WHEN YOU START. I used to listen to a Sunday morning QCWA net that was usually attended by former railroad and commercial/maritime CW ops who would tool along at 30-40 wpm. The patterns and repetition causes letters to "fall into" to your ears and after a while, you hear words and then... ..you're on your way! Also love Mr Haley's advice on using the Elecraft rig as a $2,000 CPO! Good advice really on that you use what you have and a lot of hams forget their rigs work nicely in that role.

UR a great spokesman for the grand old mode. Looking forward to hearing some new fists on the air.

I had a friend who was designing hard-drives, who put paragraphs of detailed error messages in memory on the prototype. It then sent the error messages out as flashes on the drive's activity LED. Entirely visual without a sound. We should learn the code as sounds, lights flashing, clicks, banging on pipes, every way imaginable. That's what makes it truly useful. I see no reason to limit the versatility of Morse to simply sounds.

Respectfully it would have been great if the URL to the resources he spoke of where included in the video info box.

The best advice I've heard, is to start copying code where you want to finish. If you want to copy at 30 wpm then start at 30 wpm. You don't teach an infant to talk by speaking to them at 5 words a min. but you talk to them at a normal speed and the learn to speak at the speed they hear it.

There is a program called "Just Learn Morse". It used the Koch's Method. You can select the WPM speed, between 1WPM and I suspect it tops out at around 60WPM. You start with the K and the M, and add an R and then the S, and then........ The program is free standing, so you don't need internet, and you can use it anywhere. I think it may even have an I Phone or smart phone app too. I usually have my laptop with me anyway.

I’ve read a lot of CW learning guides online and I’m familiar with the concepts. I’m currently at LCWO lesson 18 switching when I achieve 20/10wpm (it’s been over 6 weeks of good practice), but when I add a new character I revert to 20/8 and practice until I’m at 20/10. So my goal is to finish the lessons at 20/10 and then work on closing the gap to 20/20wpm. There’s one aspect that doesn’t get discussed in all these guides and articles on Koch-Farnsworth. Should I learn all the characters at a slower spacing (I feel like I could complete the course at 20/8 reasonably fast in 2-3 more weeks and then pick up speed) or grind longer but at 20/10wpm. I can’t add new chars at 20/10 because it’s too confusing, I have to revert to 20/8 and going back to 20/10 takes a few days. Some say that I should learn all chars slower first and others that I will have a hard time picking up speed with a full set and I should grind at 20/10 or even 20/15 before I learn all. Older CW manuals say that you should start fast and it will be hard to pick speed later on. What are your opinions on this?

I'm way more than lost here. I signed up for teamspeak, tried to get program running but got flooded and overwhelped by all kinds of sounds and messages and finally got connected. Once I open and login to team speak, what am i clicking on and tryng to do to get to the CW/morse code stuff so i can learn?

Excellent advice! I made what I now know to have been the mistake of learning Morse very slowly. First to be able to pass my Novice exam, and then I *very slowly* built my speed up. You just can't develop any real speed if you have to do the mental conversion of thinking, "that was a dit and two dahs, so that's a 'W.'" That's somewhat like having to look-up every word in the dictionary while you're trying to have a conversation. It doesn't work. Avoid most of the frustration by doing it correctly from the start.

Great video. I've been using 20 wpm character speed for 20+ years. I will try the 30 wpm character speed at my next CW training class and see how that takes. Right idea though, learn fast character speed and shorten time between character elements to gain speed. The student doesn't have to relearn the character all over again, just process it faster as space is decreased. 72/73 DE Terry - KB8AMZ

I was a US Navy Signalman. It only took around two hours to learn Morse Code. (Complete alphabet and numbers)... OK, getting any speed (WPM) was the trick. My point is, that there was a manual that taught Code. I was amazed at just how fast I was able to learn code! (Plus, I'm a little dyslexic, but that manual was the bomb!) The Navy doesn't use Signalmen anymore...(SNIFF!) so I don't know where you could find any of those manuals... If you know, of one or you have a copy of one,PLEASE get a hold of me!!

Hi, nice presentation but one question: in TeamSpeak 3 to which server should I connect?

Great job. Thank you!

i used morse code when i was on the ship..now they changed to satellite like inmarsat a, m and c.. i love morse code....

Great video! Thanks!

Very helpful! Thank you.

I was a Navy radio operator we used straight keys 4 to 8 hours at a watch and nobody got carpel tunnel or sore arms if fact we would run to get on the CW circuits so we woudnt have to sit at the teletypes

It's one of the best video about cw

Can you add the information in the box please

1:43 What about an Aldis Lamp?

I need help with a code

URL?

This stuff has turned into a race. It was enjoyable to me going slow and taking my time. Now that everyone insists on starting like a racehorse out the gate, I feel like Im having a stroke instead of fun.

Great video thanks from mw6tab thanks

I wish I had heard this and had the resources available 57 years ago when I first started studying for my novice license ... WA7VVV

Wonder if anyone has compared Morris Code to Braille.

What your saying is listen and memorise.

All I want is a dog tag

So, I learned morse in 2 hours by visually learning. I didn't use a house diagram or anything just a photo. I have a photographic memory and I learned it like that. Is it too late to learn audibly?

73 from YO8SLC !

What job could I get by learning morse code , interesting .

Me and my friend help each other on tests with Morse code

Yo learning morse code in the corona sqwad

Hi Ray, would you have any objections if we played this video at a ham club meeting here in Australia ? I haven't checked with the guys yet but i think they would enjoy it and its a greay way to add content to the meetings. I also believe they would be happy for me to record similar items from their meetings to reciprocate. There is one on my channel for aprs to give you an idea, although I would make improvements on audio quality etc as required. Again, I would need to get approval first but I don't believe that would be an issue. Brett VK2MRX

Very, very well done

what is K6BFA?

Thank you very much..really useful info.73 de iu1cyf

Im learning and what I see is that its all with freaking programs and software's and stuff. It cant be just that, there has to be other ways .-.

i have naturally brought images to my mind to visualise the characters, i think its too late now :(

What's your website? .. . ... . .___ .. .... . ..... . .. . ok got it.

Why am i being recommended morse code videos?

No I nead to memorize the alphabet first haha because Im not psychic lol , or how will I know hmmmm

Great information thanks a lot, KE4VBB

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Da-da-di-di-dit Di-di-di-da-dah

Great video but lozy audio!

Good video BUT, if people are hunt and peck typers typing the letters will slow them down. A LOT. Ask me how I know! I prefer writing them down on paper like you'll do once you start doing real CW on air. Just an observation.

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Why does he sound like he's saying Morris code instead of morse.

No this is to advance for me I will lean alphabet first , iv no idea why hah

this teamspeak stuff is too complicated. I keep contecting, hear tons of voices about stuff I don't understand and don't know where to go.

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#morsecode is good for defeating alzheimer's desease

am i the only 12 year old watching this?

I'll have to disagree with his method. I've not talked to anyone yet who can write down 30 words per minute, maybe shorthand style.

Very poor sound,

no such thing as Morris code