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Morse with Purpose

22 July, 2026• Category: Skills development • Miscellaneous • Views: 50

Are you looking for something with a bit more of a challenge? Maybe you need something different or simply want to learn some new skills. Morse with Purpose is...

Prosigns (Procedural Signals)

29 May, 2026• Category: Getting started on-air • Skills development • Miscellaneous • Views: 59

A prosign is a concatenation of two characters sent without any spaces. It is usually written with a line over the top of the two characters. These are...

Cut Numbers

29 May, 2026• Category: Skills development • Miscellaneous • Views: 27

Quite often you’ll hear cut numbers used in contests; for efficiency and speed. Many operators also use “N” in place of “9” when...

Sending Morse code with essential tremor

22 May, 2026• Category: Miscellaneous • Case studies • Skills development • Views: 32

In early 2026 I had a student who suffered essential tremors. It’s not something I had encountered before so I raised a query with my fellow CW Academy...

Online Resources to help

17 May, 2026• Category: Skills development • Tools of the trade • Miscellaneous • Views: 31

ONLINE RESOURCES Learn CW Online – a useful resource for learning the code – used by CW Academyhttps://lcwo.net/ Better-ICR – Once you have...

A brief history of Morse code

27 April, 2026• Category: Overview • Miscellaneous • Views: 31

Morse code emerged in the 1830s as Samuel F. B. Morse and Alfred Vail worked to create a practical electrical telegraph. Early prototypes used mechanical...

How do we keep our morse code brain in good health?

1 December, 2025• Category: Learning Morse Code • Skills development • Miscellaneous • Views: 62

Morse Code, ageing, and cognitive health/recovery Many of us (well, most of us) will hopefully have the privilege of growing old. However, as we can all...

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