Quote from: RadioRay on July 15, 2018, 04:19:41 AM
https://www.starherald.com/hemingford/opinion/making-do-with-what-you-have/article_018c654e-86ad-11e8-9247-df74bda297bc.html

I see this more and more often. Annoying!

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The clickable link in there goes here: https://gdpr-info.eu/

Quote from: Jon_Garfio on July 10, 2018, 05:42:52 PMHowever 817/818 is not a good plattform for morse Code, in fact, I sold it and get a Elecraft K2.

Please tell us more. I am considering selling my two years old and unused FT817ND.

Why do you consider it not a good platform for Morse code (CW)?

Quote from: gil on June 25, 2018, 12:40:47 PM
There are a few radios I want to buy at the moment...

What about the Yaesu FT-817ND? Have you get one already? You have often stated that you'd like to own one, if memory serves me right.

https://www.yaesu.com/indexVS.cfm?cmd=DisplayProducts&ProdCatID=102&encProdID=06014CD0AFA0702B25B12AB4DC9C0D27

What about this one?: https://www.universal-radio.com/catalog/hamhf/0818.html

Quote from: vwflyer on June 01, 2018, 11:00:15 PM
A great forum to set up skeds with people is the Straight Key Century Club (SKCC). They have a webpage just for setting up skeds with other people who use a straight key. It's a great way to get your feet wet with CW. Since everyone is using a manual key, the speeds are slow and the people patient.

I looked into that a while ago. Think I read somewhere that they consider semiautomatic bugs (e.g. the original Vibroplex) to be manual keys. I am not able to relocate that rule now; is this correct?

Quote from: RadioRay on July 18, 2014, 08:33:42 PM
For your efforts and success, I award you a medal JUST for you. 
[...]
As you can plainly see, it sayz "Hero of Morse!" - riiiiight?!

Not quite right, check this medal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Heroine

This one would be more fitting, I presume:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Breastplate_Grid_HONORARY_radio.jpg
http://www.soviet-power.com/ussr-army-honourable-radio-operator-badge-soviet-award.html
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Soviet-Russian-USSR-post-WW2-Excellent-Radio-Operator-Badge-Medal-Order-Pin-/142730950330
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/RUSSIAN-RUSSIA-SOVIET-USSR-CCCP-ORDER-MEDAL-PIN-BADGE-HONORARY-RADIO-OPERATOR-/272741771436

Quote from: RadioRay on September 22, 2014, 12:07:42 PM
To paraphrase Kopernicus:  'And yet, QRP works.'

I did study the history of astronomy, for a long period. Kopernicus was my great hero then and now. However, that famous quote is attributed to another great astronomer, a century or so later:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_affair
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_yet_it_moves

Quote from: Sparks on October 28, 2015, 10:16:43 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Kg5FDhO6uU&list=PLdwkbjBNJkwLazdN5TqJ1y9uGnoVpsfQw&index=1
This playlist was put on YouTube last week, perhaps of use to some of those who are learning Morse Code?

Unfortunately, these videos are not on You Tube anymore. I couldn't find them elsewhere, either.

As a consolation, I forward some links found by googling 'Morse Code as a Language':

http://www.amateurradio.com/learn-morse-code-all-the-cool-kids-are-doing-it/
http://www.k4icy.com/cw_language.htm   >   https://w6rec.com/learn-morse-code/
http://morsefusion.com   >   http://morsefusion.com/faqs/
http://rageuniversity.com/PRISONESCAPE/RADIO%20AND%20TV/Learning_Morse_Code.pdf

Thanks for the links! I made PDFs and archived on my Mac.

That must have been an awesome site, a pity it has been discontinued.

Quote from: gil on May 27, 2018, 05:17:19 AM
Thanks Sparks. I clicked on it and it turns out that I was already following it!

Me too. Most likely, us "likers" and followers followed along automatically when they rebranded.

I am perhaps too preoccupied with WWII in the Nordic countries. Norway was occupied by Nazi Germany from 1940 to 1945, and in 1941 the occupant decided to confiscate all radio receivers, almost half a million of them, from the general Norwegian population. Only the German occupants and their Norwegian Nazi collaborators were allowed to own radios. The main goal was to prevent Norwegians from listening to London where the King of Norway and his Government resided in exile. (They would later return triumphantly to Norway in 1945.)

Amateur radio was prohibited long before that, and all equipment was seized according to official registers of ham licensees, I was told by ham radio veterans many years ago.

Now this man had built himself a transceiver in 1939, but had postponed to sit for his ham license exam, so when the Germans arrived on April 9, 1940, he was safely under the surveillance radar:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunvald_Tomstad
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per_Hansson_(journalist)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Det_st%C3%B8rste_spillet

I guess Gunvald Tomstad's story would have been a quite different one if he had been a registered ham.

I registered my ham license some fifty years ago. Then I had an interim period of forty years when I was not registered (did not pay yearly dues). A few years ago I contacted the relevant authority, and they gave me back my license and first C/S for life, for free. I can live with that.

I would like my wife and some of my friends to learn Morse code and become hams.

Then I would like to send and receive encrypted messages about everyday matters.

Instead of encrypting ourselves I would suggest using one of the codebooks in this list:

http://www.jmcvey.net/cable/scans.htm

The Captain of my first merchant marine vessel as a Radio Officer almost daily sent coded messages to his wife in Scotland. One day when delivering a radiogram to his desk I noticed a code book lying there. I took note of its title but since I didn't have access to a copy I couldn't decipher his messages. (And frankly, I couldn't care less ...)

Quote from: Sparks on December 05, 2015, 04:35:48 AM
This is a Facebook page where interesting links are being added about every week:
https://www.facebook.com/morsedummies/info/

They changed the name, it's now "CW 4 Dummies - Morse Code". New URL:

https://www.facebook.com/cw4dummies/

Quote from: https://www.facebook.com/pg/cw4dummies/about/
About
Learn MORSE CODE fun and easy way.
Learners, experts, tricks, materials, contacts ... radiotelegraphy
(Some of this information is collected in internet)

Quote from: Sunflower on September 17, 2012, 12:02:19 AMhttps://www.amazon.com/Ham-Radio-Dummies-Ward-Silver/dp/0764559877/

I checked the URL, the book is still there, with a note that says:

"There is a newer edition of this item":

https://www.amazon.com/Ham-Radio-Dummies-Computer-Tech/dp/1119454840/

Quote from: KK0G on May 05, 2013, 02:38:53 PM
The Case for Code - Part 1 http://theoriginalpreppernetworks.com/APRN/APRN_blog/?p=4530
The Case for Code - Part 2 http://theoriginalpreppernetworks.com/APRN/APRN_blog/?p=4533

Domain is for sale and articles gone. Hopefully, are they published somewhere else?

Quote from: KC9TNH on March 20, 2013, 06:59:18 PM
Pretty interesting one in a series of InfoWeek articles here:
http://www.informationweek.com/global-cio/interviews/20-people-who-changed-tech-samuel-morse/240150285 ...

The URL has changed. The article is now located here:

https://www.informationweek.com/it-leadership/20-people-who-changed-tech-samuel-morse/d/d-id/1108985