Click on the “play” button below to hear some Morse Code. Sent at a slow rate to make it easier for beginners to hear.
Welcome to our CW Page
Bert (KC2ABB) working a contact during a June 2021 Field Day.
“Dazzling, admirable, talented, practitioners of the art of dits and dahs provide company in which to bask and be somewhat dazzled. Therefore, any visitor is practically bound to want to be like these rare and impressive folks, and should rush headlong into the pursuit of the magic and mystery of the Cs and Ws!”
~ Bert, KC2ABB
General Information
The requirement for Morse code was dropped from the FCC License about twenty years ago, and recently - especially since the Covid lockdowns - there has been a steady growth of interest in morse again. What is it? What do they do? How hard is it to learn? and so on.
The Schoharie Club has a core of CW Operators that conduct a conversational “net” Monday through Saturday at 8:30 am (local time) on 3.542 MHz . The participants transmit at the speed of the slowest sender. Friday is often considered “straight key Friday” where the participants use a straight key versus paddles. However, an individual should feel free to use a straight key whenever they wish. One additional comment regarding the net, the net does not operate on the 2nd or 4th Friday of the month as they meet to have breakfast together in Middleburgh, NY.
The “members of the net” welcome anyone who wish to join in and have a goal of increasing the number of core operators.
Interested in learning code? You may wish to visit the following websites.