How fast should I be sending?

Category: Getting started on-air • Skills development • Tools of the trade • Views: 27

How fast should I be sending (and receiving)? This question fraught, and the answer is “it depends”. If you’re in a contest or chasing DX, then you’ll...

Mythbusters

Category: Learning Morse Code • Views: 40

With apologies to the real MythBusters, I wanted to bust a few myths and challenge a few long-held axioms – some of which have held many of us back as we...

Pangrams

Category: Learning Morse Code • Skills development • Views: 39

A pangram is a sentence or phrase containing every character of the alphabet at least once. A very well know examples is “The quick brown fox jumps over...

Improving your Morse code

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If you want to improve your Morse code you’ll need to practise. Think about a tennis player and the countless hours they spend on the court practising their...

Boilerplate QSOs

Category: Learning Morse Code • Getting started on-air • Views: 81

Boilerplate QSOs. You may have heard this term. It refers to a series of standard exchanges that are common to most basic Morse code QSOs. They typically...

Muscle Memory

Category: Skills development • Views: 29

Muscle Memory 🌍 Developing your Muscle Memory Muscle memory for Morse code involves using repetitive physical actions, (like straight key presses, bug...

DXpeditions and working Split

Category: Skills development • Views: 26

“Up 1” – DXpeditions and working “Split”. 🌍 What is “Split” and why use it? When a DXpedition is highly sought after, many stations will...

Giving Signal Reports

Category: Getting started on-air • Views: 100

Most radio amateurs are familiar with the RST system of signal reports on CW – or the simpler RS version on voice modes. RST has been...

Test Article on Paddles

Category: Tools of the trade • Views: 32

Paddles come in many different shapes and sizes. You can spend a few dollars on a 3-D printed Paddle, or upwards of $1,000 on an engineered masterpiece....

The Ageing Brain

Category: Skills development • Views: 50

Morse code and the ageing brain Even after a stroke or a diagnosis of dementia, intense Morse code practice can deliver surprising benefits...