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LAST UPDATE 31 December 2011

I know we no longer need it for the license...but what a shame to let such an art, that is so easy to acquire, and a rare talent, just slip by…

Me? I used to be ok at listening to it. I pretty much know all the letters/numbers. I spent a few years in the Air Force working with “Sigsops” who were so very fast they could watch TV, chat to each other, and still get 100% accuracy.

Never really sent a ‘dit’ or ‘dah’ in anger unless you count the time between the age of 10-15 where a neighborhood mate and I used to think it was pretty cool to ‘morse’ with our little 100mW walkie talkies, taping away at night to each other till mum would yell at me to stop that infernal squeaking.

However, I would love to actually start sending it and communicating around the world at speeds myself and the mate used to think was ultimate.

Here is an excellent package for learning Morse: Just Learn Morse Code

The secret is to set the speed of the Morse character to as fast as possible, but the words per minute as slow as possible until you instantly recognize letters and numbers. That takes about 2-3 hours to accomplish. Then you can speed up the words per minute.

How you lose the plot is “thinking” about what you last heard while the next character is already being sent. If you can first memorize every character and number perfectly so that when you hear them, you recognise them straight away without thinking time.

Here is a great sheet of paper that will assist you to memorise every letter and number and more: