This is actually so funny, especially since I'm about to make my first contact! https://youtu.be/HQV0sKWO14o?si=l1G5Yg0kvollAPeK
#hamradio #amateurradio #morsecode #CW #cwa #CWops

It's February. It's only five months until ARRL/RAC Field Day!

Last year, I modified Morse Walker to support practicing running CW FD.

I've since done a couple other modifications; sadly I haven't heard back from the author on PRs, so if you are thinking you'd like to brush off your Morse code to participate in Field Day, my fork is still your best option:

https://johnsonm.github.io/morsewalker/

I'm saying this now because I got that work done shortly before FD last year and was absolutely not ready to run, but was able to do S&P based on having learned in the fork. But there's enough time left that running POTA and practicing in my fork of Morse Walker might be enough for you to run CW FD. Double points for CW QSOs! ☺

I've thought about what it would take to make it have a mode for simulating S&P / hunting (Morse Pouncer?), but it's a lot more work for much less value, so I can't imagine I'll make that investment this year. Practice running with only one responding caller configured, and keep your sending speed to speed you can copy, and you'll learn the pattern well enough anyway.

#HamRadio #FieldDay #MorseCode

#todayilearned that, in 2010, the colombian army wrote a pop song and concealed a #morsecode message inside it, as a way to communicate with hostages and tell them that they'd be freed soon

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Better_Days_(Natalia_Gutierrez_Y_Angelo_Song)

the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVCE-mH3PdM

visualization of the message: https://youtube.com/shorts/z2MyN0zbWGI

When you work someone on #morsecode and they tell you they learned CW on https://LCWO.net/ 😍

Straight key practice is a medieval torture.

#MorseCode

Ha! Der liebe Jürgen Müller hat eine neue beta #Firmware für die #EnigmaTouch veröffentlicht, Version 4.21. Nun kann sie auch #Morsecode über ihren Lautsprecher ausgeben! Such fun! Geschwindigkeit, Tonhöhe, Lautstärke sind alle anpassbar. #Enigma

Article in Radio World from W7VOA

The Morse Code of Resistance

Alan Higbie's Army enlistment was to avoid the infantry; he communicated to a revolution

https://www.radioworld.com/columns-and-views/roots-of-radio/the-morse-code-of-resistance

#hamradio #morsecode

❄️ Survived Winter Field Day 2026!

I headed out to a field near Bonn for the annual cold-weather stress test. The elements definitely showed up: -2°C, icy rain, and pitch blackness during setup. It was a true shakedown - my telescopic mast even froze shut! 🥶

I started fully focused on CW, but realized that Winter Field Day feels distinctly more SSB biased (given the event's focus on emergency communications, where voice is often the primary mode). So I eventually plugged in the mic and logged my first-ever portable SSB contacts. Lesson learned: Next time, I’m bringing the mic into the game much earlier! 🎤

A massive thanks to the organizers for their efforts in making this event happen. It’s a great way to find the breaking points in your kit.

📝 Read the full report on my site: https://dg5cw.darc.de/portable/2026-01-25-wfd/

73 de DG5CW

#HamRadio #WinterFieldDay #WFD2026 #AmateurRadio #EmComm #PortableRadio #CW #SSB #OutdoorRadio #MorseCode #FieldDay

@FediThing

I grew up listening to shortwave radio. I learned how to make antennas too. The proper length of antenna and electrically shortening or lengthening it with a capacitor or inductor. I would also learn how to take a #balun and make covert directional and #yagi antennas, something that might be very important if signals are jammed during a total fascist takeover. Cable, connectors, and makeshift insulators and RF iron cores, stocking up on these DIY antenna parts might be quite useful during the dark days ahead. Also, learning #MorseCode never goes out of style.

A couple of weeks back I've had a #telegraphy QSO in #morsecode with the Cap San Diego in #Hamburg. It is a cargo ship from the early 1960s that has been turned into a museum. In its radio operation room a group of former maritime radio operators have set up a amateur radio station.
In the QSO I've been invited so today I paid a visit to the ship and the station. (1/2)

#amateurRadio #hamRadio

Beim CW trainieren mit #lcwo mache ich die meisten Fehler beim Eintippen des gehörten Textes. 🙄🤷🙈 #hamradio #morsecode

New version of hashgen released.

v1.2.2

- added mode: halfmd5 -m 5100
- added mode: morsedecode

https://forum.hashpwn.net/post/89

#hashgen #md5 #halfmd5 #hashcat #morsecode #morsedecode #hashcracking #hashpwn

Since 2026 I took learning The Code seriously and signed up for the CW Academy! Read about my journey so far in my latest blogpost! https://pa8e.nl/cw-academy-participation/

#HAMradio #amateurradio #morsecode #cw #cwa #blogging

I am officially starting my CW (#morsecode ) journey! I've joined up with the Long Island CW Club as a life member. I'm looking very forward to learning and getting on the air for QSOs!

#HamRadio #AmateurRadio

New on "Learn CW Online" (https://LCWO.net/):

A collection of 150 Turkish 🇹🇷 proverbs, contributed by my old friend Bekir, TA2RX.

I randomly translated one of the proverbs ("Gulu seven dikenine katlanir.") and it is a perfect allegory about learning #morsecode :

(S)he who loves the rose must endure the thorns.

🌹

#hamradio

The one that got away…. Just before I became inactive, I wanted a Red Hot radio NorCal 20. After any years, I am getting back at it. I have not been able to find a NorCal 20 in the usual places. What do you think is the spiritual successor to this awesome superhet mono band 20 meter rig?

#morsecode #qrp

As someone with no interest in #hamradio #contesting , I am very surprised to hear 30m full of #WorldWideAward #morsecode QSOs. I naively assumed this band was (still) exempt from contesting, but, evidently, I need to brush up on my operating know-how.

New on "Learn CW Online" (https://LCWO.net/): Hungarian 🇭🇺 word and plain text training, with a collection of 7800 words and 745 proverbs, contributed by user Xongi! #morsecode #hamradio

It’s here and it’s a chonker.

#MorseCode

@StumpyTheMutt @qualia

I mean, how could #Beethoven have predicted that #MorseCode would make didididah mean V, which is the #RomanNumeral for 5?

(Or maybe #SamuelMorse was being cute.)

(Deleted & re-posted to fix typo.)