Saturday January 20th, 1000 local time. Location TBD. (I have several available but I want to see who is interested before making firm arrangements.)

This is a beginner class, expected to last about 2 hours and will give everyone a chance to experience the basics of Morse code.

If you are interested in learning Morse code with the intent to use it on radio, please join me! If you're already proficient with code and would like to assist me in teaching others,? also contact me.

Please contact me directly at Jasonturcyn@... or call or text 706-341-8330. Do not reply to this thread in the groups.io please!

Here's my plan for the class:

After introduction, We will discuss the weights and timing. "Dits and Dahs" rather than longs and shorts or dots and dashes. We will then go over some of the letters, E, T, I, A, N, and M. We will discuss how the individual characters are spaced, then letters spaced, and then words spaced.?

We'll move on to longer letters, S, U, R, W, D, K, G and O. Hopefully the sounds of the first 6 letters will become sort of familiar and you can begin to apply them to these 8 new letters.

We will look at certain words and phrases and you will need to sound out those letters in your mind or out loud.?

We will discuss a casual CW contact exchange, a POTA exchange and some contest exchanges. In this discussion we will point out the distinct differences during exchanges between CW versus phone or digital.

We will move on to H, V, F, L, P, J, B, X, C, Y, Z and Q, And numerals 0-9. We will briefly talk about symbols such as period, comma, question mark, KN, BK and SK, and when these are used during the exchange.

Finally we will discuss some Q-codes and when they are appropriate.?

We will make a plan to study code on the air once a week where I will send a Morse code message over the air and you will try to decode it and email me what you think you copied.we will plan on having a follow up or makeup session in February or March.?

Thanks!

Jason KE4CPC?