{"id":44810,"date":"2020-08-14T07:29:42","date_gmt":"2020-08-14T11:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=44810"},"modified":"2020-08-14T07:29:42","modified_gmt":"2020-08-14T11:29:42","slug":"vals-morse-code-videos-and-practice-sessions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/vals-morse-code-videos-and-practice-sessions\/","title":{"rendered":"Val&#8217;s Morse Code videos and practice sessions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-14-at-07.26.38.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-44811\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-14-at-07.26.38.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"909\" height=\"502\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-14-at-07.26.38.jpeg 909w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-14-at-07.26.38-300x166.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-14-at-07.26.38-768x424.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-14-at-07.26.38-624x345.jpeg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 909px) 100vw, 909px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Valery Titievsky, who writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Perhaps it will be interesting to SWLing Post subscribers. A short video for those wishing to improve their skills in Morse code. Poem by George Byron &#8220;Prometheus\u00bb.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1IqrzQl4nGc?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The channel also has lessons in studying Morse code and a few videos with my SWL on shortwaves of various radio broadcasting, weather and other service and number stations.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">73! Best Regards<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Valery Titievsky (R9O-16) SWL<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCCLZRRArO3q87NCysYKTVzg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to check out Val&#8217;s YouTube channel.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When I practice my CW skills, I do like listening to real content like this instead of randomly-generated characters. One reason is you start to recognize the sound of common words (like &#8220;the&#8221; &#8220;an&#8221; &#8220;and&#8221; &#8220;is&#8221; etc).<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for sharing this, Val!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Valery Titievsky, who writes: Perhaps it will be interesting to SWLing Post subscribers. A short video for those wishing to improve their skills in Morse code. Poem by George Byron &#8220;Prometheus\u00bb. The channel also has lessons in studying Morse code and a few videos with my SWL on shortwaves [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[545,3,304],"tags":[90,8463],"class_list":["post-44810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ham-radio","category-news","category-videos","tag-cw","tag-valery-titievsky"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-bEK","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":42947,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/new-kb6ibb-swl-logger-version-for-macos\/","url_meta":{"origin":44810,"position":0},"title":"New KB6IBB SWL Logger version for MacOS","author":"Thomas","date":"April 23, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Valery Titievsky, who writes: Good news from Jeff, KB6IBB. 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