{"id":49446,"date":"2021-07-01T09:18:18","date_gmt":"2021-07-01T13:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=49446"},"modified":"2021-07-01T09:19:43","modified_gmt":"2021-07-01T13:19:43","slug":"g6qas-slow-morse-morning-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/g6qas-slow-morse-morning-club\/","title":{"rendered":"G6QA’s Slow Morse Morning Club"},"content":{"rendered":"

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While some SWLs and radio listeners dislike Web-based SDRs because they don’t feel like “real radio” there’s no denying that they do offer up listening opportunities you might not otherwise be able to enjoy from home.<\/p>\n

Case in Point<\/h1>\n

Friend and SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Pete Madtone<\/a>, has been enjoying dropping in on a local Slow Morse Morning Club via the G0XBU WebSDR<\/a>. He’s shared a bit of recorded audio with me in the past, but this morning he sent me a link to the SDR<\/a> with the frequency of the class in progress.<\/p>\n

We both listened live with Pete and the repeater in the UK, and me in the States.<\/p>\n

The class is wonderful and what I consider an ideal use of local repeaters. \u00a0Linda serves up a sentence of slow code, then reads back what she sent. The others on the repeater then chime in with their copy–what they copied and what they missed. There really is no better way to build up your CW chops in the beginning than to do this–it’s interactive, supportive, and the audio very clear via FM on the repeater. It’s proper distance instruction using my favorite medium: radio!<\/p>\n

Plus, well, the whole thing has some serious charm. I started an audio recording of the class this morning. Here’s it is for your enjoyment:<\/p>\nhttps:\/\/archive.org\/download\/websdr_recording_2021-07-01T10_22_19Z_144528.0kHz\/websdr_recording_2021-07-01T10_22_19Z_144528.0kHz.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

Thanks for the tip this morning, Pete!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While some SWLs and radio listeners dislike Web-based SDRs because they don’t feel like “real radio” there’s no denying that they do offer up listening opportunities you might not otherwise be able to enjoy from home. Case in Point Friend and SWLing Post contributor, Pete Madtone, has been enjoying dropping in on a local Slow […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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],"tags":[9347,9348,88,7455],"class_list":["post-49446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ham-radio","category-news","tag-g0xbu-websdr","tag-linda-g6qa","tag-morse-code","tag-pete-polanyk"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-cRw","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15938,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/now-online-a-new-websdr-in-iran\/","url_meta":{"origin":49446,"position":0},"title":"Now Online: A New WebSDR in Iran","author":"Thomas","date":"December 1, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"SWLing Post contributor, Mehdi, has informed me that his ham radio club (EP2C) has just put a WebSDR online in Iran--perhaps the first in this part of the world. 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