SPY RADO & CRACKING THE CW CODE

[@MONTY-YTNOM]

Used to walk past that house when I lived in Ruislip

[@gravestonemyth]

Thank you, Peter. I enjoyed the first part, but the last part is most relevant for me. As a 30-year ham, I am committing to re-learning CW and surpassing the meager 13 WPM I learned to get my license. I think 10 - 13 is the limit for one who uses his mind as a "lookup table" for each character. The secret is truly in the patterns!

[@watersstanton]

Many thanks. hpHave a Happy Christmas. Peter

[@XXXJAB]

Thanks Peter, I never considered morse code as an international language but I now understand what you mean. You consistently produce great videos that are so enjoyable. I would say they are therapy to the difficult times we live in. Please keep up with this channel, you offer so much more than the mohicans with more money than sense, Hi! God bless you.

[@watersstanton]

Great to hear from you. Happy New Year. Peter

[@timodell5728]

Really enjoy your posts. History stories very interesting, too. Your tech expertise is invaluable.

[@chadwickdavis1749]

Getting back into amateur radio after being away for30 years, relearning everything, thank you so much for a great channel, now to get my license

[@watersstanton]

Great to hear! Welcome bavk. 73 Peter

[@Raenman66]

Haven't had my station set up for many years due to lack of space (KB2LDM-General). Your previous vid on indoor antennas and this one for CW has reignited my interest. I will have to relearn most of CW (some of it still is in my head: e.g. DE call sign, CQ, SK and of course SOS). Thanks for the inspiration!!

[@watersstanton]

Thanks for sharing. Great news. 73 Peter

[@wrote8]

Thanks Peter - Parts 1 and 2 very good - you have an excellent narrative style. I learned morse as a Merch R/O 50 years ago and was able to pick it up again no problem after 40 years when I got my foundation last January. Yes it is all about the rythm so much so that I picked my c/s as MM7RNF purely for its rythym rather than using my initials :-/ - all the very best for 2021.

[@watersstanton]

Hi ther. Great to hear your story and well done on joining the ham radio gang, Very Happy Christmas from Peter

[@stewartmarshall4112]

Hello from Puget Sound, US of A. Enjoyed your story very much. I am teaching myself Morse (68 years old) and have built some vintage valve transmitters and receivers. And when I was at university in London many years ago, I sometimes went out to Ruislip Lido to go rowing. Small world!

[@watersstanton]

Greato hear from you Steve. As you say, a small world. 73 Peter

[@PhinAI]

As a young soldier, I found an ARRL text book, which I found intriguing. I discovered the requirements for licensing, and that those included a requirement to learn CW. I tried to memorize on my own, found it futile, and put the idea behind me. I revisited the idea only fleetingly on occasion over the years. However, in speaking with a friend a little more than a year ago, I learned that the CW requirement had been removed from the licensing process altogether. I achieved two levels of Ham licensing on the same testing day. I am a drummer, and I'm intrigued by the musicality in Code that's Hams, such as yourself, have opened my understanding to perceive. I am, now, working on learning CW, in earnest. It amazes me to think that the gate that kept me from pursuing an interest is likely the very thing I will enjoy the most about the science, craft, and art. Thank you for your observations and encouragement!

[@watersstanton]

Great to hear your story. I am also a drummer. Once you have learnt the code the rhythm element dpes not really become obvious until you speed it up. Much like drumming, many rhythms played slowly mean little until played at speed. All the best. Peter. - - . ... ... - -

[@nicklombardo5036]

Thank you for the spy tale. I listened with great interest as I do to all your videos. I have ben a ham for 47 years and still enjoy working CW. All the best. VE2DTW

[@watersstanton]

Thanks for sharing!

[@reallybadaim118]

You are such a great story teller. Love it!

[@watersstanton]

Thank you so much!

[@geburael]

Great video and you are such a good teacher. I have been looking at ways to learn CW and there are so many ideas most of which do not appeal to my style of learning. What you showed me towards the end of the video was illuminating to say the least thank you for giving me a starting point and what for me was a way forward in learning Morse. Also you are a true gentleman.

[@ianmackenzie686]

Beginning my CW learning journey following your advice. Looking forward to that "aha!" moment. Thanks for the great vid, you've got a new subscriber. 🍸

[@billymoretti8437]

Thanks for this! The spy story as well as the intro to morse code..I'm 63 this year and very interested in learning CW Bill

[@watersstanton]

Thanks for watching.

[@gnobody8933]

Great channel you have here, , im finding it really interesting,you certainly are encouraging me to learn morse and to persue an amateur licence. Thankyou for your fascinating content. All the best to you and everyone

[@watersstanton]

Welcome aboard! 73 Peter

[@schweinhund7966]

Excellent commentary about CW! I have done very well with DX via phone for years but never “wasted” the time to learn CW. In the military my job was NOT radios but I was responsible for operators sending CW at at least 18 wpm and that was NOT English language or any language. 😊. I was able to attend an electronic warfare course in 1983 and in it we listened to 5 watts CW being sent and received (very faintly) despite deliberate USSR jamming at well over 100,000 watts!😊. While earning a commercial license (Global Maritime Distress Safety System Operator) in 2016 our instructor was paid to send the cover of the NY Times newspaper to ships at sea via CW in the 1980s!!! So in late 2020 with time on my hands I started learning it and can send 10 wpm but cannot receive worth a hoot.☹️. As a “visual learner” my ears just cannot count then dits for anything! I will try for listening to the rhythm. Thank you for this video!🇺🇸🇬🇧

[@watersstanton]

Many thanks for sharing. 73 Peter

[@FreeStuffGuy916]

Bill-N6EF-Loved your spy story. You're a great story teller. I learned CW when I was in high school in 1977 when I was a novice and CW was the only mode available to Novices. I learned CW using the "Farnsworth" method of hearing the characters at 20 words per minute with 5 WPM character spacing gradually working my way up to 20 WPM in a short period of time (few weeks of daily practice). For me, it really helped to learn the characters at 20 WPM. It made learning faster speeds much easier since I had a headstart with the character speed. When I upgraded to General in 1980, I still used CW for many years. I made very few phone contacts up until a couple of years ago when I started doing portable operation. I've been doing parks on the air activations using phone but started using CW lately. For me, it wasn't hard to learn. I was inactive for about 10 years and when I picked up radio again, it didn't take me long to get back to copying CW again. I don't have the speed I used to have in the early years but I can still keep up at 25 to 30 WPM. Thanks for informative videos.

[@jimwillis176]

Love it! I learned Morse code by audio cassette and by using a key and code practice oscillator whilst driving around and transcribing the road signs.

[@epicure2002]

we all did that one. exit, slow down, no turn. :-)

[@watersstanton]

Nice work! 63 Peter

[@spex357]

much the same here.

[@bvds2007]

Fascinating story and another great video. Just started ham radio as something to learn during the COVID lockdown, got my license and looking to learn cw (at 56).

[@watersstanton]

Welcome aboard. Enjoy the Hobby. 73 Peter

[@stewartgoodchild2930]

Hi, excellent videos by the way, sorry to hear about the closure of Your Hockley shop, in the early 80's I purchased a Sony worldband radio from You which was unfortunately stolen much to My annoyance!, however I had left it in a car under the seat(fool!), then later I purchased a Pioneer stereo system from Yours Truly, next month I'm starting the foundation course and finding Your videos most entertaining but most importantly informative, keep it up and thanks, stay well regards Stewart.

[@watersstanton]

Hi Stewart, great to hear from you. Good luck with the Foundation licence. Hope we can help with gear from our Portsmouth mail order facility. 73 Peter.

[@guitstikkustoms4448]

I am trying to learn CW now. Great video, I love the history.

[@watersstanton]

You can do it!

[@MrScotchpie]

What an fascinating story! Really enjoyed listening. As for morse, I'm an M7 and though morse is not a requirement now, I still feel drawn to it. I can see cw being my preferred mode. I've started now to head copy using a Koch Farnsworth app and regularly tune down to the bottom of bands to listen. Even when SSB is quiet there is usually always morse to hear.

[@watersstanton]

Many thanks for sharing. 73 Peter

[@BoB4jjjjs]

Interesting story on spies Peter. Yes, Morse, I looked at it for a while and even at a fair speed I can pick out some letters and I only looked at it for a couple of hours, though the higher speed you were sending it at was just a bit to fast for me. I have seen the speed some naval operators used to send and it is amazing, how you can even pick out anything at at those speeds defies me? I was watching an operator at an American Radio Club and even seasoned operators couldn't keep up. He was showing them on a paddle key, someone said "Yeah but you couldn't send it like that on the old keys" he proved them wrong. He just touched the paddle key and he would get a series of dits out in a fraction of a second. One person commented that it was impossible to read it at that speed. He said that they had to send that fast, in fact he said that was slow. Reason they were trained to send very fast was so it was hard to read and if it was coded would be almost impossible for the enemy "Vietnamese" to read it. He was sending so fast it sounded like a speeded up Daisy-wheel printer (remember those). Only the guys mate who had also been in the navy could read what he was sending. One person gave him a message to send to his mate as I don't think he believed it could be sent and read at the speed they were sending and reading it at. He sent it and his mate wrote it down word perfect. The guy was speechless and he said he thought that he was a fast operator! Of course these guys are an exception as even he said he had to slow right down for Amateur Radio operators. Now, was he being sarcastic or serious? It was the look on the other others faces when he said that that was so funny.

[@watersstanton]

Hi Bob. Great to read the story. Many thanks and Happy New Year.

[@beachbum9869]

Fully enjoy your videos. Love the spy stories. Always intriguing. I started learning code back in the early 70s as a young boy. As most young boys, my attention span was not the best. My loss. I am trying to relearn code now. I find it much harder these days. Have a Merry Christmas . Stay safe and stay healthy.

[@watersstanton]

Thanks fir sharing. Happy Christmas. Peter

[@cwguy8960]

I really liked part two - you tell the story well! I hope you have inspired some folks to learn CW. I fear that many new hams feel it's an outdated mode - why bother with it, anyway? I'm always amazed (or appalled) at how often a new ham will ask "do they even do that anymore?" 🤦‍♂️ As a ham of nearly 40 years (I can't believe it's been that long) I have had many many many contacts that simply could not have happened on SSB. QSOs with others who did not speak the same language. QSOs in very difficult band conditions. Even today, as a SOTA op, I can make many more QSOs on CW than I can on SSB with qrp power levels. Way back when I was in the Navy, I once helped a signalman who had trouble reading light because I knew the morse code by ear - and reading light was easy! I was an aviation electronics tech - not even a signalman! Morse is fun - and even more fun the faster you get. I hope you stirred interest in some of your followers - thanks for the great video, Peter! 👍

[@watersstanton]

Many thank and great to hear your story. Happy New Year. Peter

[@williamshaw8740]

Hi Peter, enjoyed your 2 "spy" videos. Your videos are enjoyable and informative. Still using the Elecraft radios I bought from you many years ago ( they spend a lot of time on CW ! )

[@watersstanton]

Thanks William. Nice to hear from you. 73 Peter

[@paul-c7541]

Fantastic Peter, CW yes, I love it, I use it on home brew qrp gear, I was taught by a Radio Amateur now silent key, his Call G4OO Dennis who sent me tapes regularly, plus live transmissions on 2 metres, and on HF with my old faith kenwood TS820 I used to listen in, he taught me at 20wpm, he said 12 wpm far to slow I totally agreed, so thanks for the CW I hope more take it up, I loved the spy story have you got anymore fascinating history, well done absolutely Brilliant chimed with me that's for sure, Paul de M0BSW.

[@watersstanton]

Many thanks for sharing. 73 Peter

[@patoborq]

Really enjoy your videos, Peter. But this story teller approach is amazing. Best regards de CA3PDB. Take care

[@watersstanton]

Many thanks!

[@billjames3148]

My Favorite radio story( WW2) is the Heavy Water plant in Norway. The receiving radio operator could tell if the sender was under stress by the speed of the code . It's a lost art and now in the usa they want AM band radio to go to FM. I do not know why. Thanks for the video and again its Christmas time, Stay healthy .

[@jankersten6212]

Very inspiring video, I'm learning CW by LCWO lesson 31 now

[@jonnythedj]

Great video I have been doing CW for 36years and I love it and mostly on 5watts thanks again stay safe

[@watersstanton]

Thanks, you too! 73 Peter

[@alannorthdevonuk763]

Thank you for the video. I'm into week 9 of learning CW/Morse and I am using a couple of apps and KZbin. I seemed to have gotten stuck but I think I'm now starting to make some progress again. I'm learning words now but just getting the first letter and sometimes the last letter of the word. missing the middle bit. This could be down to my 67-year-old processor. I recognize rhythms but tend to mix them up: for example, the Y rhythm but sometimes think it's a K, or a R for a P. As you say it's practice, practice, and practice.

[@watersstanton]

Thanks fir sharing. 73 Peter

[@pda49184]

A very interesting video Peter.. When I learnt Morse, I was lucky to have a friend (G2RO) who made me cassette tapes of his QSO's so I could listen and learn to decode his, and his worked stations messages. I struggled at first as he'd told me it was roughly 12 wpm , but in fact is was all nearer 20, ha-ha.. Needless to say when the test came I sailed through it with ease at 12 wpm. Have a great Christmas, and look forward to seeing you in the new year..

[@watersstanton]

Thanks for sharing. 73 Peter

[@kwintonkevin2593]

Thanks for posting the video. I've been learning morse for around two years now and up to 20 wpm, cw is now my mode of choice; absolutely love it! Interesting how I find listening to morse code at 6 wpm almost impossible to copy. Also interesting that a high percentage of morse code operators also play a musical instrument....coincidence??

[@watersstanton]

Many thanks. Nice to get the info. Happy Christmas. Peter

[@nigelackland2352]

Peter, that was fascinating, thanks so much for posting that info. 73 Nigel.

[@watersstanton]

Thanks Nigel. 73 Peter

[@dericksherwood3611]

Excellent Peter all very interesting stuff, and as per usual, we'll presented. It's so true what you say, CW is all about practice, passed my test in 1992 after learning code inside out, using the rhythm principle but never changed my Callsign from 1983. Merry Christmas & Happy New Year to you and family. 73 Derek G1AEG.

[@watersstanton]

Many thanks Derick. Happy Christmas to you and yours. Peter

[@josephbovio3447]

Outstanding! Thank you for taking the time to make this. I just subscribed. KD9MKO

[@watersstanton]

Thanks for the sub! Regards, Peter

[@tonyridlen]

You have an excellent voice for producing you tube videos my experience with CW Morse Code isn't much but I do have to say that I can copy CW with a KOCH Trainer at about 7 or 8 WPM Merry Christmas and HAPPY 2021. Anthony O. Ridlen KC9QVE Amateur Extra Marion,Indiana

[@watersstanton]

Many thanks. Happy Christmas to you. 73 Peter

[@glenwoofit]

Great Video. I tried back in the 90's my send was 18+WPM but receive at about 7 WPM. I'd love to go back and try again as I think it's a marvellous skill to have. 73, Merry Christmas...

[@watersstanton]

You can do it! 73 Peter

[@DindoNuffin-e2x]

Fascinating story. Everybody loves a spy story!

[@watersstanton]

Thanks. 73 Peter

[@epicure2002]

hi peter, back in the day (1981) when i had to learn morse code to pass my radio exam, nobody explained the idea of the rythme of morse. it's like just hearing a known melody jingle bells or happy birthday and the words appear in your head. well if i only was told that back then. anyway, i passed the cw on the first go and got my ham ticket. but I'm sure that i would still be cw proficient if i had understood the idea of morse melody. i enjoyed your cia/spy story. you should do more like that. happy holiday 73s roger

[@watersstanton]

Many thanks fir sharing. 73 Peter

[@PhilG0BVD]

Thanks for the spy story very interesting. I am getting back into CW after a 32 year lapse 73 Phil G0BVD

[@watersstanton]

You can do it! 73 Peter

[@mrgajeep]

So much I would like to express about this positive presentation about CW. I will just sum it up by saying INSPIRATIONAL! I mastered cw enough as a teenager to pass my exams for license then did nothing with it. Now at 80 yr old, I am finding great satisfaction re-learning by using it on the air. Blessings to all my contacts for their patience. Es tnx to u sir get the inspiration! 73 de WB0RSZ

[@watersstanton]

Many thanks Gene. Great to hear from you, Happy Christmas. Peter

[@NeilMaron]

I learned the code decades ago to get my license here in the US. My parents were both pilots in the 60s and the Omni stations ID’d themselves with Morse code. It was fun listening to them as we flew along and figuring out which stations/locations we were hearing.

[@watersstanton]

Many thanks Neil. Happy Christmas. Peter

[@DucatiMTS1200]

Great spy story Peter - did you ever consider being a BBC presenter? that was most enthralling put in your own indomitable way. Thanks for encouragement to learn Morse. That's my new years resolution decided. Thank you for your excellent videos during 2020. Happy Xmas. 73, GI8WFA.

[@watersstanton]

Happy Christmas to you too. 73 Peter

[@christopheriles1469]

Excellent video Peter! Really interesting. Seasons greetings, Chris, G0VOE in Somerset.

[@watersstanton]

Many thanks!. Greetings to you. 73 Peter

[@myleswilliamson5177]

Merry Christmas Peter. I enjoyed this video.

[@watersstanton]

And to you Myles. 73 Peter

[@kehotti]

I learned cw 35 years ago when i was in the army for 11 months and still remember all the letters and numbers. I got my ham lisence couple of months ago and i will start using cw specially as i found the practice cw keyer what i used when i was 15 😀

[@watersstanton]

Glad to hear from you. Happy Christmas and look after that key. 73 Peter

[@minermike61]

Were you a Rat Rig operator?

[@kehotti]

@@minermike61 I was in the communication / Radio troops 😀operating in tents, radio vehicles etc...

[@Scif64]

Great video Peter. I remember when i was learning morse code that i used to walk around at work and down the street reading it in my head anything with letters or number on it, from peoples names to things on boxes label etc, it just stuck in my head in the end to pass the 12wpm. 73s

[@watersstanton]

Hi Steve. Thanks for sharing! Practice practice and practice! 73 Peter

[@Scif64]

Question for your Peter. i am looking to get back to cw and want to move over to a paddle and wondering if it would be better with a dual paddle or single? recommendations excepted. 73s

[@davem0udb]

Another great video, full licence passed so plenty of time to learn cw merry Christmas M0UDB

[@watersstanton]

Go for it Dave. Happy Christmas. Peter.

[@1fanger888]

Thank you for the spy story and the inspiring talk on CW. KC3BXZ Joe 73

[@watersstanton]

Many thanks. Happy Christmas. Peter

[@davidhharbourne9865]

Really enjoy video very interesting thank you.

[@watersstanton]

Glad you enjoyed it 73 Peter

[@johansmitphotography]

I watched till the last second. Very cool story, although I was hoping you said you helped catch them by decoding their CW signals. 🤣🤣🤣

[@watersstanton]

Ah sorry about that. Actually they would not be sending CW but coded signals. 73 Peter

[@johansmitphotography]

@@watersstanton Yes. I know they wouldn't. But I mean, it wouldve been cool. I got my full Class A license on my 16th birthday in September. I made my first 3 contacts through satellites. I'm just now getting my first HF radio. Now I have to build an antenna or two to get on the air. I'm also learning morse code now, I can send quite fast, but my receive I still have to practice. I also still need to go look at the CW operting practices with the short cuts and abbreviations and stuff. But then I'll do CW a lot...

[@rolnas21]

I started to learn CW wrongly from dots and dashes. I passed some CW classes from local club, but it is really difficult to hear when you count dots and dashes. Advice is to start from learning by hearing characters at high speed and don't even look at tables with dots and dashes.

[@watersstanton]

Many thanjs. 73 Peter

[@J1mbo888]

Peter Your a Star. Just fantastic. Great work and very informative. Happy Xmas to Yourself, Your Staff and You Family. :-)

[@watersstanton]

Thanks, you too! 73 Peter

[@rjinnh3933]

Great story and a valuable demonstration of CW rythm. Many moons ago I started at 5wpm to pass the then US Novice exam. After passing that, my Elmer, W1BXM, got me going at 12wpm needed to pass the General exam, which I did in short order and then dropped CW like a Hot Potato. When I wanted to upgrade to Extra Class, I struggled just to get to 15 and sometimes 18wpm but could only rarely get to the required 20wpm so it wasn't untill the FCC dropped the CW requirement entirely that I finally gained my Extra Class ticket. If I had just stayed with it, I'd be at 25/30 today instead of 10/12. I still work at getting to 15 then hopefully to 18/20 but it's a struggle. 73 OM . .

[@watersstanton]

Just listen on the b ands for 10 or 15 mins each day. No pressure, just take art easy and it will come. 73 Peter.

[@sionjones3741]

Merry Christmas from Wales,Great videos,all the best.

[@watersstanton]

Same to you! 73 Peter

[@nigelsheridan6229]

Tnx Peter for the video, very informative, love a good spy story, cw is my next goal. 73

[@watersstanton]

Glad you enjoyed it. 73 Peter

[@wizzardofwizzards]

Knowing alphanumeric text substitution can be worthwhile as well.

[@michaelcox436]

Straight out of an episode of Danger Man.

[@keithjas25]

Thanks for the CW half. I cant copy CW to save my life, but 18 wpm is a good char speed. Cant stand 5 wpm. You are right about the rythm, when I hear CQ I dont hear any letters but I hear CW every time if that makes sense. My late G3 dad always told me that he never heard distictive letters but just learnt what to write down. he was good for 25 wpm as he was a proffesional, as a radio officer in the merchant navy. ps the spy stuff was also good.

[@watersstanton]

Yhanks for that Keith. Great to hear from you. 73 Peter

[@glenmartin2437]

Thank you. I guess I will get back to practicing CW. It is also good for communicating with patients who suffer with aphasia who are able formulate words in their mind but unable to speak. Thanks have a good year. N0QFT

[@watersstanton]

Many thanks Ken. Great message of hope. You keep safe. 73 Peter

[@navstar7334]

Nicely told Peter! 👍

[@watersstanton]

Thank you kindly

[@motodevcam]

Great story at the start! Always fancied learning CW. Had a few goes in the past but things got in the way. Passed my intermediate a couple of weeks ago ans in learning mode, so before I start looking at the full I'm slowly getting to grips with CW. Using LCWO website and copying 5 letters at 30wpm with 10wpm relative speed. Really enjoying working though it! Thanks for the entertaining video. Lee/2E0GZM

[@watersstanton]

Many thanks for your information and response to the video. Happy Christmas. Peter

[@shadowlab9543]

neat series, i don't recall the name of it but their was a book about the radio operators of the french resistance during ww2

[@watersstanton]

Many thanks. 73 Peter

[@ynot6473]

no, you have not persuaded me to learn morse, i decided to do that a while ago. i did my foundation exam on monday. it seems, to me, that to make the most of 10 watts on HF, morse should be included on the menu. yourself and other you tube amateur and ham operators have been a positive influence on me. thank you Peter, 73 Ian R.

[@watersstanton]

Hi Ian. I like your determination. 73 Peter

[@gregc5719]

I thoroughly enjoyed the spy story as your are a wonderful story teller. Had to learn morse code when I received my license many ( too many ) years ago but never used it much since then. Now older and wiser I am relearning morse code. Thanks for your informative videos. 73 KD5HIZ

[@watersstanton]

Wonderful! Take care. Peter

[@MauriatOttolink]

I doesn't do any damage for picking up the Rhythm if you're a drummer!! Ever thought of doing that Peter... "Who could ask for anything more?" I was teaching a child clarinet and a bar had 2 quavers, a dotted crochet an another quaver. The child was struggling a bit and I just stopped myself from saying "Just think of it as a letter F in morse code", realising in the nick of time that the kid had probably never even heard of morse code.

[@watersstanton]

Thanks

[@PERVISJAYFURLONG]

I loved your video mate! Keep up the good work! Can you please do a video on end fed wires on 2m and 70cm.

[@PERVISJAYFURLONG]

ICOM 705

[@watersstanton]

many thanks. All ideas considered. 73 Peter

[@bernarrcoletta7419]

Cool story. Peter Wright, in his book Spy Catcher, talks about how MI-5 used roving patrols to find spy transmitters. I really don't understand how it works. It might make an interesting episode of this series.

[@watersstanton]

Mamy thanks for the info. 73 Peter

[@ProperLogicalDebate]

I'm very slow but at the very start I used some connections to help remember. Post eXchange FreQuency Light Year I'M There is one that is more risque involving B and its compliment J. And still others that others have already discovered like W, U, G, and B, and many more.

[@watersstanton]

Keep at it. 73 Peter

[@donstewart248]

Just got my morse code license 5WPM Canadian. Now to develop the rhythm. Thank you.

[@watersstanton]

Well done Don. Now its practice, practice! 73 Peter

[@sptvids]

Just passed foundation and am looking at learning CW. It seems so fast on the air

[@watersstanton]

Stick at it - just ten or fifteen minutes a day - its worth it. 73 Peter.

[@sptvids]

@goinghomesomeday1 Thanks for that & seasons greetings to you & yours. I have just bought an IC705 and have been looking at FT8 but am interested to learn CW. Cheers & 73

[@Theoobovril]

Gordon Lonsdale's russian surname was Molody and over a period of several weeks, with MI5 using pairs of trackers, man and woman, finally shadowed Lonsdale to the Bungalow at 45 Cranly Drive Ruislip. The method of transmission, that the Kroger's used, was to tape record, the message to be transmitted to Russia, then transmit it using the tape machine at high speed playback, hence the message sounded like a high burst of noise to anyone happening to be monitoring the frequency the Kroger's were using. Actually, a local Ham, in the Ruislip area reported to the relevant authority that he was occasionally getting interference on his Ham receiver, which later was then attributed to the Kroger's transmissions. The Kroger's transmitted on a frequency just slightly below one of the frequency s that the local RAF station, RAF Northolt, had in operation at the time. The main transmitter, that the Kroger's used, was finally found, in the kitchen of the Bungalow, under a trap door in the floor. Years later, on two occasions, subsequent owners of this Bungalow found radio equipment buried in the back garden, all wrapped in preserving material. The case of Helen kroger and the stoking of the boiler, it was a female Police officer who caught Helen in the act of opening her handbag in an attempt to dispose of incriminating evidence. I have at time wondered if the Krogers ever had contact with Sonya, Sonya, a runner of several Russian spies operating in England back all those years ago. And like the kroger's too, she was a very capable operative, Sonya died about five or six years ago and her obituary appeared in several of our tabloid newspapers.

[@watersstanton]

Fascinating info. Thanks for sharing it. 73 Peter

[@kellyphillips4404]

I love to learn new things.

[@ericwalton1492]

Wasn't part of the story that the house in Ruislip had been chosen as it was close to an airport so that the Kroger's transmissions would have been harder to DF as anyone trying to locate them would have thought they were legitimate aviation transmissions? Cheers from G4FSN Bolton.

[@watersstanton]

Hi Eric, I have no idea re choice of bungalow. BTW it is still there according to Google Earth. However, they used a cipher machine on the short wave bands so I guess that was regarded as enough protection. Who knows! 73 Peter

[@ericwalton1492]

@@watersstanton Hi Peter, well, that was in a hardback version of the story that I read some years ago. But, as you say, who really does know? Have a great day, vy 73.

[@Tomteeejay]

The Krogers were using Burst Encoder/Burst Transmitter technology. They weren't hunched over the radio sending long Morse Code messages that could be easily intercepted. They would prepare the messages and then load them onto the burst encoders. The radio would be set up with the transmitting frequency and the burst encoder activated sending the message at hundreds of words per minute. It would just sound like a brief noise if you were listening to the frequency. See following webpage for examples of burst encoders. www.cryptomuseum.alibaba.sk/burst/index.htm From www.cryptomuseum.com/index.htm

[@ProperLogicalDebate]

With slow but detailed and tangent filled thinking 15 is about as fast as I go. But there also, because of tangents, be more space between letters and the dahs must be longer to tell them from the dits. That's how I currently see it.

[@watersstanton]

Many thanks. 73 Oeter

[@JohnSmith-31]

Great stuff thank you very much.

[@watersstanton]

My pleasure! 73 Peter

[@p43500]

Hi, have you got any more tips on sending and receiving morse. I started back in March and am struggling a little to send on an iambic key. 73 2e1 jeh

[@watersstanton]

I may do an additional video on CW. 73 Peter

[@ehayes5217]

I've been ALL morse code for mni yrs & do NOT like iambic paddles; instead, I'm much more comfortable using a single-lever type paddle vs. a "squeeze" type, or iambic, paddle; so if anything, don't discount ur ability to send, as it's possibly related more to what type of paddle ur trying to use! 73 de WA4ELW in TN

[@donaldmason4959]

In WW2 Morse speech in training was the only language "spoken" in the NAAFI.

[@watersstanton]

Thanks. 73 Peter

[@martinellis7521]

Very interesting

[@watersstanton]

Thanks 73 Peter

[@TheNoCodeTech]

Cool

[@watersstanton]

Many thanks. Peter

[@tonyturtle5805]

thanks for video !!!

[@watersstanton]

You are welcome!

[@andreswynter4620]

Merry Christmas everyone!

[@watersstanton]

And to you. Peter

[@W4BIN]

He failed to explain abbreviations, "Q" signals and pro-signs, and their importance. Ron W4BIN