• have the image automatically blanked or blurred
• make sure that Mastodon will blank the image, too
• add the content warning "CW: eye contact" to your post
• add the hashtags #EyeContact and #CWEyeContact to your post, especially the former which some people out there may have filtered

• have the image automatically blanked or blurred
• make sure that Mastodon will blank the image, too
• add the content warning "CW: eye contact" to your post
• add the hashtags #EyeContact and #CWEyeContact to your post, especially the former which some people out there may have filtered

#vendredilecture #mastolivres #MesLectures2026 #CW

Le passage de Mathieu PERSAN.

Bon, ce livre, c'est une sorte de petite bombe à mon humble avis parce que j'ai vécu cela aussi avec l'étudiante...
Il aborde un sujet difficile : la #dépression adolescente sous la forme d'un roman graphique.
Très juste sur le ton et les illustrations et sur le vécu de cette descente aux enfers que rien n'arrive vraiment à expliquer.

Bref, je recommande.

Ludwig Koch's thesis (1936) is a treasure trove of empirical data and methodological proposals for the learning of Morse code. And Quentin Santos has made it available together with an English translation: https://github.com/qsantos/koch-dissertation

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#CW #Koch #Farnsworth

I picked up a used Bencher BY-2 off FB marketplace today. I think it was a good deal for $80. It cleaned up very nicely and has some great stories behind it. I bought it from the son of a silent key KL7LF, who had stations in Colorado, Fairbanks AK, and Johnston Island. His son gave me a few of his dad's #QSL cards as well.

#cw
#hamradio
#amateurradio

New #blog #post: Mind the Shards

https://rldane.space/mind-the-shards.html

552 words

Mild #CW: I'm discussing mental health, and briefly, faith.

cc: my wonderful #chorus: @joel @dm @sotolf @thedoctor @pixx @orbitalmartian @adamsdesk @krafter @roguefoam @clayton @giantspacesquid @Twizzay @stfn

(I will happily add/remove you from the chorus upon request! :)

#rlDaneWriting #blost #podcasts #MentalHealth #MandyPatinkin #frailty

Made an iOS / MacOS app that decoders CW with four decoders / settings-combos. Using ggmorse as algo, which seems to work nicely. Tried fldigi and bayesian style - decoding but ggmorse is a clear winner.

I made enhancement to the ggmorse to use kalman filtering for frequency tracking, it didn't make it worse :)

#morse #cw #ggmorse #radioamateur #amateurradio

From AD0WE's QRZ page, I found The Art and Skill of Radio-Telegraphy by N0HFF, which is the first Morse Code learning resource I've read that recommends a practice that I started doing naturally: vividly imagining morse as a learning technique.

Sit quietly in a chair, close your eyes, relax, and imagine you are hearing each letter sound (just as you heard it), taking them one at a time, and immediately recognizing it or writing it down with a pencil. Make the picture as realistic and vivid as you can, even to imagining the "feeling" the pencil writing on the paper. Feel a sense of satisfaction of doing it right. Three to five minutes practice this way at any one time is probably enough. You can then repeat this kind of mental practice with each new group of characters as you learn them, and it will greatly strengthen the habit you are trying to build.

I practice both sending and receiving code with vivid imagination. To this day, I have trouble with D/B and B/6, and I have improved by vividly imagining hearing them and speaking (rather than writing) them, but I do this practice with all symbols. I also vividly imagine sending. I'll use memorized text, and imagine sending the whole thing, down to imagining feeling the particular key I'm imagining that I'm using between my thumb and fingers.

I have found this practice helpful.

#HamRadio #MorseCode #CW