I'm learning morse code cw for ham radio.?

Question

Hello OK so I have been dying to learn morse code for years. I am now planning to learn it within a month. I may not learn it in a month I'm just pushing myself to keep with it. I am going to study it two times a day before and after work. I am using a mixture of a program called morse and a cd named Your Introduction to Morse Code Learning the Code. With the program morse I'm hitting these keys like non other. I'm correctly answering these nicely. And the CD is pretty much the same but much funner when forming words. I have a few questions and a statement or two and I'd like some input.

Someone once told me that morse code is like another language and you're not really listening for the dit's and dash's but you're listing for that musical tone basically. Well that's basically what I'm doing and I have now found myself I can identify a letter when it's played to me but if you ask me to send that very same letter I have no idea how to send it because I have no idea how many dit's and Dash's is in it. So I was thinking about getting one of those code practice oscilator's. What do you guys think about those?

Lastly what else should I do to make this easier, faster, and better?

Thank You

Answer 1

Usually learning to decode what you hear is much harder that transmitting. So, it sounds like you are doing something right. The rest will come with pratice. If you hear da da di di dit. Di di di da dah and think 73, it wont be long before you think 73 and send da da di di dit. Di di di da dah

Answer 2

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Answer 3

if you have an iPhone or similar then there are several Morse Code apps that look OK for practising with