I learned Morse code in 1959 in the Air Force. In 1963 I taught Morse code and other subjects at Keesler AFB, Mississippi. I can still copy code but not so much plain text. I was trained to copy enciphered text. Once you learn it you'll never forget the sound patterns, which is what they actually are. Just like a different language.
@@cyh..7 i mean the best scenario would probably be that he was born in 1950, and learned the morse code by the age of 9? But also already dealing with an adult air force job? Ok fine i give up this is too complicated lol
The most impressive part of a good telegraph operator is not only interpreting the letters, but also keep track to the point where they can assemble an entire sentence in their heads.
As one of the gents on here stated…..”you don’t hear each letter”….well you do but its just the beginning & the word is filled in, in your head. You already know what word is going to be, at least 90% of the time. It truly is another language. This guy is using a straight key which is what I prefer as well. This gents fist (technique) is great…..his timing is smooth & consistent. I am one of those hams (amateur radio operator) who uses CW (morse code) almost all the time. The conversations on CW are more respectful, educated & “proper”. Not that phone (voice) communicating on ham radio isn’t educated or proper….it just seems more authentic to me. Anyway, this guy does a nice job with his CW, I would have sworn he was using a paddle…..or even a keyboard…
Ye. I just learned morse, and I can key anything I can read quickly and easily. Next step is being able to follow at speeds shown in the video and interpret on the fly. That's fckn hard and is going to take significant practice.
Lance Roark technically it is its own language, a word is composed of a sequence of beep sequences language is not restricted to letters on a page. there’s Braille and talking and many other ways of transmitting meaning
My father learned morse code in the 1930's. It got him a good gig in the Navy when World War 2 broke out. He taught it to me and my brother. When my brother had his jaw, tongue, tonsils and voicebox cut out because of throat cancer, he could still communicate without using a pen or paper. That was 10 years ago in 2011. At that time I thought: " wouldn't it be great if there was an app. For the phone where you could just point the camera at the person that can no longer talk and have the phone read their lips ?" They have such an app. today. I miss my brother.
I'm sorry for your loss. Although it stings at first, it's something to be grateful for that technology gets better so that you know others may not experience the pain you and your brother did in the future. Those same advancements mean there's apps that people can use to teach themselves Morse code, like one I have called Morse Mania. I'm still learning but I'll keep coming back to this video until I can decipher it all. I hope you're feeling a little better these days.
No one's gonna talk how fast he using the telegraf like man, i can't imagine ppl back then using telegraf to send a message as fast as they could without any mistakes
Well what gets even crazier is when you had to do that shit under incredible pressure. WW2 a forward camp is trying to coordinate targets with the navy and you can't make a mistake or you could be responsible for allied lives.
He's saying he's from Panama City Florida, age 64, been a ham since 1961, running a Icom radio and a straight key. I believe the call sign is WB0SND "Steve".. You're welcome in the comments.
I remember as a kid you could tune into morse code signals from ships on your radio. It was eerie the day that morse code stopped being used , to hear silence.
Hams use it all the time, CW is the only mode I use. Get an HF receiver & you can listen to your heart’s content……14.100 mhz down to 14,000 mhz during the day & 3.6 mhz down to 3.525 mhz at night.
In the navy we would copy commercial press broadcasts, then put them in a little blurb and pass it around the ship. Guys could keep up wth ball scores and top news.
The radio is in CW mode so he wouldn’t have heard the words, just noise. I had someone try to speak back via phone (voice mode) when I was sending Morse and it was really annoying.
Translation: ... returned from Panama City Beach, FL In 30ft Brave Motorhome and now back home, but still in motorhome. indecipherable ... and been ham since 1961 running ICOM735 and straight key old J44... indecipherable
Rusty navy comms guy here, but for those not capable of reading morse code I can tell that his c/s is W5BIB/m, he is 64 yrs and ham since 1961, now on PC beach with his Icom 735 with a J-44 Straight key talking to Hendry on the other end who is born in 1961 and has been a ham for 36 years.
Thank you for the translation. I had to learn CW for my General back almost 20 years ago. Have mostly been phone, very little CW. Moving to the Philippines soon, I will need CW to chat back to the states as it cuts through better than SSB.
Y Returned Fm P.C. Beach, FL in 30? 30 FT Brave M/H And NW back home but still in M/H hee age HR 64 and been ham since 61 ..-.-. ? 1961 = Running icom 7y5 and straight key old j44 hee so SW NW WB0SND/M W5BIB/M -.--.
Beeep beep beeep beep beep bep bep Lmao, what a joke Answers back: beep beep beep beeeeeep beep beep beep beep The guy on the other side: Hahahahahahahah
My dad learned this in WW2. We were listening to short wave once, I could barely hear anything… he grabbed a pencil and started writing down sentences. Wish I had learned it when I was younger. The original digital communication.
@@kishascape CW or "continuous wave" is either on or off, so yes, in that sense, it's quite digital. (I'm a software engineer and an amateur radio operator.)
For all the comments that wanted a translation. Here is a basic gist of what he is saying. Returned from P.C. Beach FL (Florida) in a 30 ft Brave (Winnebago) M/H (mobile home). Am back home now but still in the M/H. His name is Steve, he said he is using an Icom 7300 and then gives the model of his Morse code key. A lot of abbreviations are used. SO HWNW means (how do you copy now?). He gives his age 64 and has been a ham since 61. The other ham says that there is QSB (signal fading) but he was able to copy.
Well it uses a frequency. I'm pretty sure NSA is tuned to every frequency to find secret conversations between people. Old technology may no longer be widely used, but it can still be useful for a medium of communication by drug cartels or illegal organizations.
did USN class A Radio School in 1957. I worked with it for about six or seven years after that, then radio teletype, etc. took over most overthing I was involved with. Still nothing like being at sea on a dark night, sitting a circuit and having somebody check in from somewhere out there in the dark. Always something of a thrill. I still send code in my head, always have, but find taking over twenty wpm with a pencil now is getting tough. Last time I checked in here was over ten years ago and at 84 I'm afraid I'm slipping a little, but I still love it. Great memories and best wishes to all the old timers.
As a modern ham, I feel very sheepish when I get around other guys doing code like that. Just like everyone here watched this, it’s even more amazing when you have a real pileup going and they still can do an exchange for a DX or contest. Maybe I will learn code some day. Maybe.
They need to copy this video and do one of those where at the end they turn him into a black person thug with the blunt in his mouth and play the rap music. You know what i mean.
I've started learning Morse code, and so far within about 3 days I've managed to learn the entire alphabet and numbers 0-9, plus punctuation. I had no clue it could be so fast LOL, I managed to make out a 5 during all of this and that was it because I'm just so amazed. I hope one day I'll have the ear to make out more.
I'm sure, you learned it the wrong way, visualizing the dits and dahs. That will keep you on a beginners level forever. Unless you learn it only acoustically by head copying you will make no speed progress whatsoever!
@@schbrachbolidsei Yeah, I learned the whole alphabet in a day. Did some research and basically realized I taught myself the worst way possible lol. Restarted with the Koch method, only 3 characters in at 20WPM but I can feel the muscle memory kicking in very slowly. Not thinking about the dits and dahs and just trying to go by sound. Very fun, and very challenging. As someone with an affinity for music, I expected it to click much faster. No problem though, I know this is going to take a ton of practice.
Then grandpa realized that he called a pizzeria that was made in the times of World War 2 and they used to deliver pizzas to soldiers with tanks and they still do that.
My father in law was a wireless operator in the 2nd world war and had a stroke in his late eighties that left him unable to speak but he was still fluent in morse code and talked to the world through radio.
In a two-way conversation, it's customary to match the other person's speed, but because sending is way easier than copying, you have to slow yourself down when you send to ensure they don't respond back so fast you can't understand. His sending speed in this video is only maybe 50% to 100% faster than I am if I ignore this rule (with only a couple months of serious practice), but if he can HEAR this fast too, well damn, that's what's even more incredible to me! He's easily ten times my speed.
This was cool to watch. My dad was a radioman in the Navy during WW2. He was also my hero. He's gone now and sadly no one in the family can remember what ship he was on other than that it was a supply ship.
That's really cool! I'm sure he'd be quite proud of you! I just passed my Tech and General. First order of business after I move next month is to join LI CW Club and start my Morse Code journey. -73 de KE8YVR!
i know the alphabet, like i could write a sentence out right now but it would take me a long time 😅 i cant understand it as quickly as he can let alone send that fast 😂 the alphabet is very easy to remember though
Well don't worry. We don't have to translate that nowadays, it's not like the 40s when translators were trained to do 100 words in 60 seconds. Thanks to lord now we have easy ways to communicate.
EY RE TURNED FM P. C . B EACH ,FL IN 3 0? 30 F T BRAVE M/H AND NW BACK HOME BUT STILL IN M/ H HEE AGE HR 6 4 AND B E E N HAM S INCE 6 1 ?1961 =RUNNING ICOM 7Y 5 AND STRAIGHT KEY OLD J44 HEE SO HWNW WB0SND/M W5BIB" As said by Preázinho Play 2 weeks ago
