On Feb 21, the Trident Amateur Radio Club will be running a special event station in remembrance of the HL Hunley. We'll be operating as N4HLH for the event. Hours of operation will be sometime after 9:00 AM and run until 2:00 PM EST. Keep an eye out for us on the #POTA spots page.
Seeing as I currently hold a negative ham radio achievement (I have never called CQ on SSB) I will take a paddle with me and see if they'll let me run some #MorseCode. 😆
Pi Pico Learns Morse Code
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It's February. It's only five months until ARRL/RAC Field Day!
Last year, I modified Morse Walker to support practicing running CW FD.
I've since done a couple other modifications; sadly I haven't heard back from the author on PRs, so if you are thinking you'd like to brush off your Morse code to participate in Field Day, my fork is still your best option:
https://johnsonm.github.io/morsewalker/
I'm saying this now because I got that work done shortly before FD last year and was absolutely not ready to run, but was able to do S&P based on having learned in the fork. But there's enough time left that running POTA and practicing in my fork of Morse Walker might be enough for you to run CW FD. Double points for CW QSOs! ☺
I've thought about what it would take to make it have a mode for simulating S&P / hunting (Morse Pouncer?), but it's a lot more work for much less value, so I can't imagine I'll make that investment this year. Practice running with only one responding caller configured, and keep your sending speed to speed you can copy, and you'll learn the pattern well enough anyway.
#todayilearned that, in 2010, the colombian army wrote a pop song and concealed a #morsecode message inside it, as a way to communicate with hostages and tell them that they'd be freed soon
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Better_Days_(Natalia_Gutierrez_Y_Angelo_Song)
the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVCE-mH3PdM
visualization of the message: https://youtube.com/shorts/z2MyN0zbWGI
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