Swapping over to iambic mode should be in one of the menus, can't remember off the top of my head. The manual will tell you.

@@oe6feg Thanks for the super quick reply! I've also realised I can set the IC-705 to "no transmit" in CW but still able to hear the dits & dahs... Cheers!

Yes, it's an amazing kit. I'm looking forward to building the mid-band version. This one is for sale now on Ebay.

@@oe6feg Can you share the link here?

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Sorry, I can't make to order. Have you looked at Trail Designs? You can buy complete stove systems ready to go from them. www.traildesigns.com/

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Thanks a lot Andrew, I'm glad you enjoyed the video. I have raw footage from an activation of the Höchstein. I will try to find time to edit and publish it. I'm very busy with work at the moment.

Danke Martin, viel Glück für deine eigene SOTA-Reise. 73

Danke fürs Feedback!

Absolutely agree

Sorry, no idea.

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True. With morse, it's best not to think, at all... any thinking/remembering is detrimental. The worst thing beginners ever do is go look at a morse chart and try to memorise the dits and dahs. It's the VERY worst thing they could do. From then on, the moment they hear morse their brain tries to see all the individual dits/dahs... and this slows them down so much they miss the next characters... ... then they get so frustrated and cannot progress : ( So, the VERY first thing I tell anyone, when they say they want to learn morse ... is : *DO NOT EVER look at ANY morse!* It's my rule #1. Morse DOES NOT EXIST as far as your eyes are concerned! You will learn morse with your eyes closed and your ears open. No counting... no memorising... no analysis... ... and DEFINITELY no looking at charts or visualising dots and dashes! There's certainly no need to count because there isn't 4 things in : "dah dit dah dit" ... it's ONE thing .... "dahdidahdit"... it's a word! You'll learn it as a single thing... like the word "Balloon". You don't think about how it is spelled, because the sound itself IS the meaning. Well, dahdidahdit is a word, like Balloon! And S is "dididit" ... there isn't three dots in there! Just the word "dididit". We're going to learn these "words" two at a time... and they're going to be so fast you can't split them apart or think about their "spellings" And that's the other mistake I see beginners make. Slowing it down! Never ever slow it down! You should learn at the speed you want to send/receive at. if you slow it down then you'll start thinking - and thinking will kill your progress. Keep it too fast to analyse... and your brain is forced to learn the letters as though they were indivisible language units. Intra-character spacing should be lengthened just enough that you can think the letter... but no further, so you don't analyse it to see if you were right ; ) I tend to keep the space just enough to allow the learner to key it back. After every two letters they get a pause to say "RR" or "RP" or "PR" or "PP" ... later, it will be three letter groups... then four. Hear it... key it ... and after a group ends, say it! This way they're focused on remembering the message, and not on the analysis of symbols. It's how you learned language in the first place. Hear... repeat! Hear... repeat! I tell my students, if you learned to say "mama" and "dada" as a baby ... you can learn morse ; )

Best to learn using receiving farnsworth with decent speed of each character. Learning by grouping AUV4, NDBG etc can be a clever way, so your learn not to confuse them. For iambic transmission training, start slow to get a good routine with the keyer. Then it is easier to learn how the paddle reacts, and how you can use it most efficient. And all should know there are more than one iambic logic. I prefer Iambic B (Curtis B), due to the way it inserts the dots and dashes. I have this so worked in to my routine, that I get trouble once I use a keyer with Iambic A... Therefore I always use my own programmable external keyer, where I can choose the best style for me. In that way I can easily switch to any new radio.

@@garychap8384 I’m a new ham and I’m just starting to learn CW. I really needed to hear this! It’s very tempting to print out a chart and hang it on the wall next to my rig so that I can refer back to it as I learn. I have a bit of a history in music and what you’re saying makes a lot of sense. I’ll shred the chart and practice learning by ear. 73!

@@garychap8384 I’ll check it out! Thanks again.

Of course you are correct. Counting dits and dahs are a very poor way to to _learn_ Morse code for a beginner. I think he's trying to eliminate the tendency to "slap" the paddles for folks who already are proficient with Morse.

@@oe6feg Very good! I've heard that carbon fiber masts can affect reception. Have you experienced any issues versus using fiberglass masts?

@@oe6feg Gotcha, thanks!

Yes, and you are actually sending characters and not counting dits and dahs, which is a very bad habit to start out with.

@@oe6feg What does it mean?

@@oe6feg so by using wire connection... I was thinking something about wifii... I know about that way trough wire. Few friends told me that there is possibility to run some kind of serwer on PC and transmitting CW trough it directly to CW comunicator. And I decide to look for something similar on internet