Saturday, 29 November 2008

A bit of what we get up to on shortwave

This weekend, on amateur radio, there's a huge amount of activity in a worldwide competition where all the people taking part use Morse Code. In essence, we try to contact as many people in as many different countries over the weekend.

I thought those of you not familiar with amateur radio might be interested to hear what a bit of Morse Code, as we do it, sounds like! This little video shows Keith, GM4YXI a friend who lives near Aberdeen coming through on my set. You'll hear him make some contacts and then at the end of the video, I make a quick contact with him. Apologies for the dodgy camera work. It's hard to film with one hand and send morse with the other!


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