The first thing you need to do is to learn the characters by ear. You just need lots of repetitions and lots of drilling. Have a look here http://c2.com/morse/ - it is good stuff. Once you know the characters find a HF or VHF morse beacon somewhere (3699 East-coast Australia, w1aw in the USA) and listen to it when you are in your shack. Letters and words will pop out if you listen. I have been learning for about a year now and have made a number of contacts and now enjoy listening to CW. You can practise sending by sounding out car numberplates in your head - just say dah and dit in your head and you are sending! I have even caught myself sending in my head when stuck in lines, meetings etc. You can get a straight key later, or use a keyer or keyboard. I use a bencher paddle with an MFJ keyer mostly, as I find the straight key very tiring.
CWget is a morse decoder. I tried it, and it works about 95% on very strong clean signals. But, it won't help you learn the code. Maybe you could use it as an aid for on-air contacts. fldigi, a linux Digital mode program, has extensive CW send and receive capabilities - I just have not been able to find anyone willing to run high speed keyboard CW. It's on-air copy seems as good as CWget. Best luck with it es 73 de Brett VK2TMG On 11/29/06, REAL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I have started using a new program and It doesnt like me very much. I am trying to learn code and have started using this CWget. Can anyone help?
-- =============== Brett Rees VK2TMG http://lisp.homeunix.net
