Morse with Purpose

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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)

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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

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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

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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

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

Phone apps

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Everyone will have their preferred apps to help them learn and improve their skills. As a starting point the following have been used by some of us at CW...

CW Academy

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CW Academy is a program created and delivered by the CW Operators’ Club and is aimed at increasing the number of competent CW operators on the HF CW...

How fast should I be sending?

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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...

Pangrams

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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...

Muscle Memory

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