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I started learning a few years ago but stopped at about 15 letters

I started learning a few years ago but stopped at about 15 letters

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I was ok at it when I was in Boy Scouts. They even sold walkie talkies with morse code printed onto the unit. Good times.

With the square orange code button that had slightly beveled edges with a small dimple in the middle?

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Come to think of it yes. I also remember a radio shack version that the entire unit was orange and the transmit button was black. The morse code was on raised plastic lettering and dots.

My cousins has a set when we were kids. None of us fully understood how to use morse code so the button was just used to annoy each other. I've never seen the radioshack set.

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I only ever need "A E F G I N O R & T"

You forgot K, J and W.

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I keep forgetting about them and the e's and i's which seem to have been rubbed off from overuse.

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Da-da-da-da, da-dit-dit-dit, Da-da-da-da, da-dit-dit-dit, Dit-dit-dah-dah, dit-dah-dah-dit, Dah-dit-dah-dah, that's about it.

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Well, no but i know a guy that was in the navy that is very proficient in Morse code. As he says it, its gonna be the last form of communication over wire.

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Years ago in the good ol days that was actually a REQUIREMENT to get your Amateur Ticket

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Years ago in the good ol days that was actually a REQUIREMENT to get your Amateur Ticket

They dumbed it down to being able to copy 5 words per minute and even that didn't satisfy the Lazy Fucks who said it was too hard so they ended it. To get your Extra you had to be able to send and copy at 20wpm+ back when men were men. I went and got my license the year before they ended the Morse Code test so I could be a Code Extra, took all 4 tests at one sitting.

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I only studied for Tech, but took and passed General (barely) on a lark since I was there with the VE. If we had to test to renew, I would probably study for Extra, but since all I have to do is apply online, I doubt I will bother for a few wider smidges of freq bands that I don't use in the first place.

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That's pretty impressive. Well done!

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get in touch with your local HAM radio operator club(s).

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I bet dustin hoffman's character in rainman is

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God I love your questions

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