Very good video! As a new Extra VE it will help with my first exam today.

Thank you so much - I’m a Radio Amateur for 50 years, and I like the different kind of Morse keys. 😊 73, Willi, DL9WR ☀️

Nice keys and discussion. I agree with the "bounce" effect, and it lets you send without needing to hear the sidetone. Yes, learn on a straight key first -- you will get a feel for the adjustments as you progress. I use straight keys for /P for simplicity. I hate swings, and won't generally QSO OMs with bad ratios. I can go from straight key to bug (McElroy) to paddles (Bigali) and send solid code without thinking. Maybe being a musician helps because I feel like I'm playing each one as a musical instrument. QSL on the $100 bill to clean bug contacts. TNX ES VY 73!

Good teaching on vswr v44kw.

That’s an awesome job. Now you said you could feel what you send. I could learn CW. If they made a shock collar. Hi hi. On a more serious note. Thanks for sharing. 73. One and all.

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Especially the advice to listen 30 wpm code WHEN YOU START. I used to listen to a Sunday morning QCWA net that was usually attended by former railroad and commercial/maritime CW ops who would tool along at 30-40 wpm. The patterns and repetition causes letters to "fall into" to your ears and after a while, you hear words and then... ..you're on your way! Also love Mr Haley's advice on using the Elecraft rig as a $2,000 CPO! Good advice really on that you use what you have and a lot of hams forget their rigs work nicely in that role.

Passed my Extra a few weeks ago and a few days later emailed the forms to ARRL for VE Accreditation. In the waiting stage right now but this definitely helps me understand the process flow. Hoping everything goes smoothly as my club has a test session in early March but we use Laurel VEC so I'll need cross accreditation. N8UJH

I’m very new to this. Haven’t taken or registered yet. I’m checking everything possible all the rabbit holes I’ll go down before I make the jump to purchase my first budget friendly HT. This was very cool. Tiger tail. I did remember hearing one of the YT Hams talking about holding your arm perpendicular to the antenna when you key up to get the signal noise as close to a 1:1 as possible. I would think your arm would hurt after a bit. Does the tiger tail just hang? I mean I know you attach it to the grd of the radio or the base of the antenna. Can you coil the tiger tail? Or just let it be? Thank you for your video. I hope to one day be a good operator.

Tired of the hassle. Ham license always goes with me. Carried my HT just like it was a phone, never was asked about it. I'm trying to put together a QRP station, with a conscious effort made to make battery pack to take "AA" alkaline batteries for the (tr)uSDX, and the little LDG autotuner, which luckily hasn't been "modernized" to take anything other than alkalines. Never thought that the end-fed would be a problem with the long wire. We live in ridiculous times. Nor am I paying for extra IDs for "preferred" travel. Looked for a carry-on that fits the dimensions. Haven't found one yet. Every phone has a lithium battery. Great presentation. All the Best! 73 DE W8LV BILL

I like the banana boat swing. Stay behind means the government has to leave the country and the agents hold the contact with the government in exile. Great demonstration.

maybe someone can go and redo this video for 2023. its from 2015-2016 🙂

Yes, also the lights need to be dimmed down and possibly use OBS software to make a good video

Bugs can make me sick I do not want to try to copy personality I would rrather copy well sent cw I will just quit when I detect too much personality Lots of bug ops ought have their gear captured and destroyed Just the way it is

Can't beat See Dubya.

Thank you for opening your presentation with small loop antennas- magnetic loop antennas. Too many times have I seen videos titled and presented with the term loop antennas, and they immediately go to mag loops, and cover only mag loop antennas. One would think this is poor teaching. Wouldn't it make sense to begin with a resonant (one wavelength) loop, and then progress to other loops like, maybe, a rectangular form and then the subject of small loops, which would lead to magnetic? I'm just under the impression that a lot of hams these days think only magnetic loop when they hear loop antenna, and I'm bemused by this. I'm not a ham, CBer here. To all the hams out there, try and adhere to the most basic fundamentals of antenna theory and design, so as not to mislead, confuse or send your pupils completely off track.

How do i join the club?

#morsecode is good for defeating alzheimer's desease

Thanks for putting together an informative presentation for new VE's. Just a couple of corrections: 5:48 - It is not "mandatory" to sign up for testing on the ARRL website. There are several VEC's besides the ARRL VEC. And even if you do go to an ARRL-affiliated testing location, you don't need to sign up on the ARRL website. You only need to register with the particular VE's offering the testing so that they have a general idea of how many testers to expect. 5:55 - FCC rules prohibit "closed exams". While the VE's can choose to accept or not accept "walk ins" (unscheduled testers), all amateur radio testing must allow the public to observe testing, as long as the observers do not interfere with the testing procedures.

I really appreciate Greg’s presentation. Clear and easy to understand from beginner to SysOp.

National Electrical Code FORBIDS GROUNDING HAM STATIONS. A Ham license DOES NOT indicate qualifications in electrical wiring, grounding and LIFE SAFETY CODE

New ham here (tested last week and am waiting on my call sign now). Is AREDN still in use for the MCM? If so, I'd love to assist!

Sheila, do you have a PDF file of the "You Passed! Now What?" slide that you can pass along to us? Thank you for a very informative lesson on VE Testing.

Fascinating.. I enjoy the expertise of these knowledge gentleman. Especially the Navy guy.

There seems to be a substantial style divide between the US and Europe key use. The US seem to favour low-profile, lightweight keys that require a light touch with a rested arm and only a wrist movement. European keys are higher, often with a finger plate, much more substantial and not infrequently bolted to the front edge of the desk. They require whole arm and shoulder movement, as well as a flexible wrist. I imagine the low-profile keys come from designs suitable for portable military and submarine use, strapped to thighs or used in small naval or airborne spaces. WA6YOU seems happy with both styles. G4CTG

I have a Navy key!!! de xe2tgh 73!!!

New ham here, learning morse. I found this very helpful. I had no idea my straight key technique was wrong. I'm going to go practice now.

I miss Ray.

Agreed with Mister Payne on the travel. I prefer much travel, and spring tension; otherwise, I get a sloppy fist. Many operators tell me that I shall decrease these factors, but they hear for themselves I use unnecessary force when the telegraph tangent is adjusted like so. <03:32> I strongly relate with Mister Payne here. Morse telegraphy just sits in the muscles. There is no need of sidetone for being able to send correctly. What goes by my mind, gets sent by my fist. <22:27> The _Cootie_ telegraph-also known as the _Side swiper_-is like a manual single-lever paddle, which one manipulates between his fingers, on each element, in order to telegraph. I have realized these are very difficult send good code with. <29:27> Oh, I have never realized that! I use my Vibrocube in such fashion, all the time, when I have not an electronic Bug available. For instance, when I hook up the radio's C. W. sidetone, which has not in-built iambic modes. Also, I have my paddle pieces dismounted, so I have now a reason for finding a knob to put on there! <29:51> I have always «rubbed» my dits, naturally, on a paddle telegraph-albeit, the opposite way of what You did there; feels odd to hold it in. Anyhow, this was great to watch. It appears I have appeared on the quality segment of KZbin. And, Mister Payne, Your fist is satisfyingly great, I must say. For how long have You been doing this? Seven-three: Moses K. Frost - SM5/M.

For someone to learn as much as we used to have to know to get our ham license in the '60's tube era they would have to be able to explain the operation of the firmware in the DSP, and the decode for the display.

Thank you for the great video! I've had a very similar situation to yours and your video helped me to narrow it down specifically to the condenser fan motor. The induction motor, inside (attic) air handler blower motor and the compressor motor were all clean. I grounded the 5 unused wires coming from the attic air handler unit to the outdoor unit and this decreased the strength of the approximately 20 kHz birdies. By putting some chokes on the wires going to the outdoor unit's blower motor (3 of the wires, the 4th was a ground wire), this decreased the strength quite a bit more. I placed another choke on the ground wire going to the blower motor, and placed another on all 4 wires together going to the blower motor, and this knocked the noise below the noise level at my house. Another interesting tidbit is my antenna, which is a ground-mounted 5BTV, is about 15 feet from the outdoor unit. It is literally the closest active electrical device to the antenna. After I got serious the day before and actually identified that the central A/C running was causing the noise, I searched Google and found your video. After that, it was a matter of determining which of the motor(s) were causing the problem. After finding that only the condenser motor was the culprit, I did the grounding of the unused wires. Then I "shot gunned" the rest of the noise by placing various chokes on various wires in the outdoor unit until I got the noise to go away. Thanks again for taking the time to document your findings! Chuck Adams N5UN

Thanks for the enlightenment. My system (in South Texas) may have a different motor configuration - but I will check. I do get picket-fence interference on some bands. The thing that worries me is that the homes in my subdivision (about 250 homes) were built within a few years of each other, and most by the same builder, thus with A/C from the same manufacturer. Thus if the controls have an RFI emission defect, all 250 of them will have the defect, and ham radio is doomed. Your presentation has given me some good guidance. Subdivision is about 17 years old, my home is 14 years old. Thanks again from AB5XZ.

Ham Radio and Old Men... a match made in heaven!

I learned code on a leg key. Those are very hard to find now

I had a friend who was designing hard-drives, who put paragraphs of detailed error messages in memory on the prototype. It then sent the error messages out as flashes on the drive's activity LED. Entirely visual without a sound. We should learn the code as sounds, lights flashing, clicks, banging on pipes, every way imaginable. That's what makes it truly useful. I see no reason to limit the versatility of Morse to simply sounds.

I was a Navy radio operator we used straight keys 4 to 8 hours at a watch and nobody got carpel tunnel or sore arms if fact we would run to get on the CW circuits so we woudnt have to sit at the teletypes

Got my ticket in 2017 at 48, went straight to CW. Don't own a mic just like my dad didn't. Bug4Life

Running a test session tonight for the first time. Thanks!

This is a very informative video. Thank you for posting. On a side note, pilot to copilot: don't put the microphone next to the guy with a hour long respiratory crisis. It is like a parody of the old Honeymooners show with Ed Norton coughing up a storm...

Great presentation. I get the feeling these guys have already forgotten more about amateur radio than I will ever know. 73, KN4RWQ

What about a gamma feed for one of these?

These are wicked smart folks having fun with radios, electronics, and generally weird business.

4 years later, I wonder if the people shepherding this project still think that using AWS was a good idea…

I found this presentation to be very well done. ..-.-... 73's from KK7ASP

Wow, so much detail in a niche market. I'm a VE tomorrow morning and this is a great refresher. Thank you.

Run a connection from my station to my electrical panel? It's about 30 ft away. My goal is 800w @120v w/ a 1:1 SWR. I'm willing to do whatever to achieve that. Still, I dunno what the hell I'm doing! :(

RR deKM4UUD 73 ee

Excellent five stars

Ron, WA6YOU, is awesome. What a great video.

No this is to advance for me I will lean alphabet first , iv no idea why hah