Well, what a joy these lessons are. In the past, I've tried learning CW using a couple of apps and also from a printed form. Neither worked, for me. Your lessons makes learning the code much easier, as it is presented in a very simple, but sensible manner. What I did find I must not do, however, is look at the screen. As mentioned, it is not a good idea to look at the key. With vision being our strongest sense, looking at the key almost overrides the hearing sense, which happens to be critical for CW. I do the lessons only by listening and also writing down each character, every single time I hear it. Hearing characters from previous lessons being "thrown in", they simply flow from my pen, automatically. Well, done and thank you for well thought out and presented lessons and offering others a real opportunity to learn CW! 😀👌

After 3 lessons, and a failed attempt using a different method last year, your lessons seem to be working for me - thank you! I notice your building block method of presenting new material, along with some other good instructional techniques, and said to myself ... I wonder if this guy is a CFI ?

My mind went to mush on this one…. Gonna be replaying this a few times! Thanks! 73

"Watch this video a couple of times" 🤣🤣🤣 Thanks so much for taking the time to make these videos. it cant be easy to slow right down for us noobs. 73s

First of all, THANKS for the "No Ads" with these videos. Second, you claim to be be sending at around 18 wpm, very good speed for first time learners - but it sounds like about 12wpm - but thats coming from a guy who runs around 25wpm on the air so I'm probably way off. YEARS ago, they taught us at 5wpm which was STUPID, as you had to retrain your brain to get more speed. And I wish you'd not even mention "dots and dashes" as, again, that leads the student into visualization of the dots and dashes, which they then translate into the character (it also leads to counting dots and dashes, which you mention is a BAD thing, so I know you and I are not really disagreeing - just offering criticism. If I thought your video was crap, I'd not even comment! Thanks for the effort in doing this, there is an awful lack of CW instruction these days. 73, WR8Y

Thanks for taking the time to Elmer us. I have struggled with CW since the early 80’s. I love the pace of your lessons. I think it’s starting to sink in. 72’s de KK4LBJ

Thank you. From this lesson on I will need to listen more than once..

I'm very new into ham radio, just got my general license less than a month ago, have never used a keyer, iambic or otherwise but looking forward to doing so. I'm curious how the dits (and dahs) in succession are formed on the iambic keyer, such as the 'i' or 'h' or any other letter where there is more than one 'dit' or 'dah' in succession. Does one hold the key such that the keyer continues to create the 'dit' while the key is depressed and the user has to time when to release the key so that only 1, 2, 3, or 4 dits are created? I generally watch each video at least 4 times and am doing fairly well, I think, so far. But as I get into the letters with 3 or more dits/dahs some of the sequences begin to sound alike. I'm hoping that through repetition, this 81 year old brain will begin to sort them out. Thanks a bunch for taking the time to create these videos. I really appreciate what you're doing!

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Best lesson series! Thanks a lot!

These are simple but some of the silly crazy ones to differentiate. Thanks for this series! I know it’s coming eventually.. but my current hangups are LYQF. lol

Wonderufl videos as always with these! Are you a teacher professionally by chance?

I love these videos.

Amazing learn so much for never doing cw before

Are you sending with your key in the Mode B?

Thank you for the tutorials! They are super helpful to an old dog trying to learn a new trick. Is there a way to get the "answer key" for the strings at the end, so that I can make sure I copied it right?? Molto Gratzi!! de NC3PO