INTERNATIONAL MORSE CODE, HAND SENDING 

Please tell me more about the history and context of the "best bent". I have heard a fellow ham I talked to use it as a warmup exercise. Thanks.

Saul Broudy I really don't remember were it came from but my Radio Chief taught it to me. Its bens best bent wire, shave and a haircut 2 bits. there was a ham that would look for contacts and if no one answered his call, he would start tapping this stuff out. I should have copied it but didn't. go on the internet and search for it. Enjoy.

Saul Broudy On RU-vid look for W(ZN Bill Crane this is the guy I had a cw qso with, his whole routine is on youtube

+eogg25 Thanks for your reply re "best bent". Yes, it was W9ZN from whom I first heard it! As a folklorist and a CW op, I would like to know more...Bill says it was common among Army Signal Corps ops.

+bunnyboo786 SOS isn't as useful as it used to be. These days it's illegal to use SOS aboard a ship. Morse code isn't used like it used to be. Where you find it most used is Amateur radio. These days there is no longer a code requirement to get an amateur radio license. Since it wasn't required I never bothered to learn it. The only thing I can key and identify reliably is CQ. However I can only do that reliably with a paddle and keyer. I don't have a straight key; so I don't have the means to properly practice.

What do they use now instead if there's an emergency?

transhealthy What do they use now instead if there's an emergency?

+bunnyboo786 Telephone :)

hi madam, if the handy-net will grow down....people will come to us - radioamateurs - we will practise the emergency-communication.... have a nice time !

Because "SOS" is not sent as a word, it is sent as a sequence.

+Saul Broudy SOS is a prosign which means it is sent as a single character didididahdahdahdididit instead of dididit dahdahdah dididit

Good observation -- it could've been explained better but they are doing the correct thing. That's because SOS isn't a word, it's a procedural sign a.k.a. prosign, a single Morse symbol. See "Morse prosigns" on Wikipedia/etc. for more info. Because of the exact ambiguity they warn of, it's possible to name one prosign multiple ways, for example Wikipedia claims SK is called VA by some people. This is fine in practice since you're not sending the word "SK," you're sending the symbol "I'm done with this contact." A loose analogy if you're a computer nerd is how ASCII code 10 is called "LF" only you don't print "LF" when it's received, you print a linefeed. :)

Can't type them but when you write them you put an overline on prosigns often. BK for break for example

As far as i know V V V is used to test your Settings

tchaikovsky piano concerto no. 1 in b-flat minor op. 23 - allegro non troppo

This a military training video. They may not have been hams.

***** - Staff Sergeant (Grade 3) - Owens is at the key and Master Sergeant (Grade 1) - Young is the narrator. This was done in 1966 probably at Fort Huachuca, Arizona. They just shuttered Morse Code training 27-April-2015. The course will be taught by the Air Force on Goodfellow Air Force Base, Texas. They are probably hams but I don't know their first names.

klamberext tchaikovsky piano concerto no. 1 in b-flat minor op. 23 - allegro non troppo