Radio Preppers

General Category => Morse Code => Topic started by: KC3AOL on July 28, 2014, 08:03:17 PM

Title: Old Army Video
Post by: KC3AOL on July 28, 2014, 08:03:17 PM
Got this from the local ham club:
http://youtu.be/DQj74Y2H8xQ

Pretty nice video actually.  Any of you old folks watch the video while in the service? ;-)

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Title: Re: Old Army Video
Post by: KK0G on July 28, 2014, 08:52:07 PM
Not a bad video. Some of the mnemonics don't make much sense to me but I like that they emphasize rhythm and spacing.

I would recommend that if someone were going to use this video to help them learn code, to not actually watch the video, just listen to it. In the video they visually show dots and dashes that correspond to the letters they're sending, a big no-no in my book. Morse code is an aural language which uses a completely different part of the brain than vision, trying to learn it visually will only hamper your efforts to increase speed later on.
Title: Re: Old Army Video
Post by: RadioRay on July 29, 2014, 09:42:30 AM
During the basic Morse code portion on my training with the Army Security Agency, we never used anything visual.  All Morse training was audio and most of it was on a keyboard, some pencil work and etc. It was absolute, reflexive copy.  I was a ham before I enlisted, but they really put a good polish on it.


>RadioRay ..._  ._
Title: Re: Old Army Video
Post by: gil on July 29, 2014, 05:12:02 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pg03Dm4y1ao
Title: Re: Old Army Video
Post by: Luigi on November 12, 2014, 02:30:18 AM
Juliet is my favorite. She helped me remember the letter J. Juliet reminds me of a HS girlfriend.
Luigi.