New part coming soon for my #HamRadio Single-paddle #MorseCode key system. This is a base that you can glue magnets into, for using the key on a steel block like the commonly-used jeweler's blocks. Like the rest of my system, it is parametric, designed to be easily modified in FreeCAD. The screen shot is an example for using a dozen ¼" magnets. However, the size of the hole for the magnet (6.55mm for 6.35mm ¼" magnets), depth of the hole, thickness of the block, and number of magnets in each direction are all parameters that you can tweak.

Please respond with a size of magnet that you have that you would want to use with this system! I'll use your responses to create some variations on this part to include in the next release. Sizes can be in metric or US customary units.

#CW practice continues to go well with LCWO. I find that doing both the Lessons and Morse Machine to be effective. I'm also still using the IZ2UUF app but not as much as LCWO. It would be great if that app supported keyboard input for copying and then checking against the sent code.

#hamradio
#amateurradio
#morsecode

I had to become TODAY years old to find out that the old Nokia SMS tone was actually Morse code for “SMS”:

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I am officially too old for this discovery. O.O

Does anyone else still remember these phones? 😄

https://youtube.com/shorts/Jfr5if-IlZ8?si=jWTCYgK9XaYilymX

#Nokia #SMS #MorseCode #RetroTech #OldPhones #90sKids #TechHistory

Any recommended apps or sites that can take audio of Morse code and translate it to text?

#hamRadio #morseCode

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

I ordered this Chameleon Antenna a bit ago, I can't wait to test it out in the field. I've really grown to love the EFHW in recent activations. #POTA #WWFF #fieldradio #cw #morsecode #hamradio #AmateurRadio

https://chameleonantenna.com/products/cha-lefs-feather

RE: https://mastodon.online/@aslankemalaslan/115827385676959991

Mors kodlarına lise yıllarımdan beri merâkım var. İlgimin nasıl başladığını hatırlamıyorum. Fakat o yıllarda bir çok konu hakkında bilgi edindiğim TÜBİTAK'ın Bilim Teknik Dergisinden şüpheleniyorum

Mors ve özellikle "Maniple" ile ilgili bir sürü YouTube kanalına aboneyim

Fakat nedense çok pahalı oldukları için hâlâ bir maniple alamadım ve daha da kötüsü Mors kodunu hâlâ öğrenemedim

Oynayacak güzel oyuncağım olmayınca canım öğrenmek istemiyor ツ

#SW #SWListening #morse #morsecode #radio

Kryptogeld und „künstliche intelligenz“ des tages

Immer, wenn die laune unter dem selbstmordpunkt zu fallen droht, hilft zuverlässig ein blick in den kryptogeldwahnfug. Oder, weil es davon im moment viel mehr gibt, in den heip um die angelernten neuronalen netzwerke. Wie wäre es dann mal mit einer kombinazjon? Das ergebnis kann man sich mal wieder gar nicht selbst ausdenken:

Anfang Mai dieses Jahres reichte bereits ein einziger Tweet mit verstecktem Morsecode aus, um einen KI-Agenten dazu zu bringen, Milliarden von Token an einen Angreifer zu transferieren. Weder gestohlene Zugangsdaten noch kompromittierte Smart Contracts oder klassische Wallet-Exploits spielten dabei eine Rolle. Stattdessen genügte eine simple Prompt-Injection-Attacke gegen eine künstliche Intelligenz mit direktem Zugriff auf Kryptowährungen. Der Vorfall könnte sich rückblickend als einer der ersten großen Warnschüsse für die gesamte Branche erweisen […] Beim KI-Exploit wurde technisch kein Sicherheitssystem im klassischen Sinne überwunden. Weder Private Keys noch Smart Contracts, APIs oder Blockchain-Protokolle wurden kompromittiert. Stattdessen zielte der Angriff direkt auf die Interpretationsebene der künstlichen Intelligenz ab

Die hervorhebung ist von mir.

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Nicht weinen, liebe dummköpfe, die ihr euer geld einem angelernten neuronalen netzwerk mit der unerfreulichen kombinazjon der eigenschaften „nicht verständlich“, „nicht analysierbar“, „nicht entfehlerbar“, „nicht verbesserbar“ anvertraut, weil das gerade so von werbern und digitaltechnischen analfabeten unter dem wehen banner des reklamewortes von der „künstlichen intelligenz“ hochgeheipt wird. Es ist doch nur geld, das futsch ist. Vermutlich ist dieser angriff auf vielerlei arten durchführbar. 😂️

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Die richtig leckeren kryptogeldmeldungen gibts übrigens auf dieser hübschen webseit. Sie hinkt aber oft ein paar tage hinterher.

#HamRadio #MorseCode operators, get ready for #CW on ARRL/RAC Field Day! Use my version of Morse Walker to prepare to key (or keyboard!) your way to successful QSOs.

This is not hyper-realistic, but it's good enough practice to set you up for success. It's a trainer not a simulator. A couple things that you might notice:

• It sends more higher class numbers than you will see in practice. That's on purpose, so that you won't get thrown when you hear "18A" over the air.
• I did not add any mapping between section and call area. There's no weighting in my simulation that makes 4-calls likelier to be in the eastern seaboard. There's not even a mapping from Canadian call areas to sections, even though that's a requirement in Canada. Roll with it.
• You can't send "CLS?" or "SEC?" to ask for fills. Class and section are one-shot, just like RST and state in Morse Walker's POTA mode.

The other change I made is that it shows how many stations were in the pileup, which seemed important information to me to put against how many attempts it took to pull a correct call out of the pileup.

Thanks to W6NYC Henry for creating Morse Walker and making it open source, so that I could implement this. (I made a pull request so he can add this to the official version if he wants.)