The Morse Code For Radio Amateurs by Margaret Mills G3ACC

[Stephen Thomas Cole]

A thread in The Other Place has prompted me to recall scanning and
archiving this rather beautiful morse code tutorial book:

https://archive.org/details/TheMorseCodeForRadioAmateurs

Isn't that a lovely thing? I really enjoy mid-century print layouts,
they're often high art. But, quite apart from that, it's great to see that
even as far back as the 1950s amateur radio was an inclusive hobby, with
Margaret Mills G3ACC authoring this book. Google reveals she was the first
female licensed in England following the war, so a trailblazer and no
mistake! Does anybody have any further insight to her life story?

--
STC / M0TEY /
http://twitter.com/ukradioamateur

[nev young]

On 15/05/18 18:25, Stephen Thomas Cole wrote:
> A thread in The Other Place has prompted me to recall scanning and
> archiving this rather beautiful morse code tutorial book:
>
> https://archive.org/details/TheMorseCodeForRadioAmateurs
>

I just love the oscillator circuit on page 18.
Just wire the HT across your head and fizzzz :-)
Maybe there's something in this elf and safe tea after all.


--
nev
getting the wrong stick end since 1953

[Peter Able]

"nev young" <newsforpa...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
news:pdgtoe$sf4$1...@dont-email.me...

> getting the wrong stick end since 1953 [ !!!!! ]

Definitely getting the wrong end of the stick ;-}

PA

[FranK Turner-Smith G3VKI]

"nev young" <newsforpa...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
news:pdgtoe$sf4$1...@dont-email.me...

> On 15/05/18 18:25, Stephen Thomas Cole wrote:
>> A thread in The Other Place has prompted me to recall scanning and
>> archiving this rather beautiful morse code tutorial book:
>>
>> https://archive.org/details/TheMorseCodeForRadioAmateurs
>>
> I just love the oscillator circuit on page 18.
> Just wire the HT across your head and fizzzz :-)
> Maybe there's something in this elf and safe tea after all.
>

It won't even work as drawn. Where is the valve filament and LT supply?
--
;-)
.
73 de Frank Turner-Smith G3VKI - mine's a pint.
.
http://turner-smith.uk

[Les_WT]

I originally learnt my morse using her techniques and the good old
RSGB records. I used a battery and a relay as a buzzer initially, a
bit crude but it worked.

Interesting to see the adverts for Panda Radio. Arnold Whitely G6QA,
who I think built the Panda transmitters, inadvertently introduced me
to amateur radio back in the early 50's when his 80m AM signals were
received on my crystal set while I was trying to listen to the Light
Program.

I tired of listening to a one sided QSO and built an 0v0 acorn valve
receiver so that I could hear all these people that he was talking to.
To this day I'm still mostly a SWL with a licence to transmit

Les
--
Les G3VYZ

[Guy G4DWV 4X1LT]

On 15 May 2018 17:25:19 GMT, just as I was about to take a herb,
Stephen Thomas Cole <use...@stephenthomascole.com> disturbed my

reverie and wrote:

>A thread in The Other Place has prompted me to recall scanning and
>archiving this rather beautiful morse code tutorial book:

Thanks. However, as Margaret said, Morse is like a language and
translation should be automatic. That is true. Languages cannot be
learnt from books*. When my children were doing their "O" levels or
whatever they are called, I got them to watch children's programs in
the language they were studying as well as reading children's books in
that language.

The books written in English explaining how to speak the foreign
language.
--
73 de Guy G4DWV 4X1LT

[Gareth's Downstairs Computer]

On 16/05/2018 16:58, Les_WT wrote:
> ... the good old
> RSGB records.

That they were styled The Rhythm Method used
to raise a smile or two :-)

[Ian Jackson]

In message <lakofd1qk946ngpon...@4ax.com>, Guy G4DWV 4X1LT
<no-e...@tardis.com> writes

I bought (and will still have) this book.

To be honest, apart from helping at first at a good reference book to
learn the letters etc, I can't say it was much help with real morse.
Once you know morse, sending it is a piece of cake - it's receiving
that's the hard bit. I'm still practising listening to 40m CW on my
small portable radio when in the toilet!
--
Ian

[Roger Hayter]

FranK Turner-Smith G3VKI <g3...@turner-smith.uK> wrote:

> "nev young" <newsforpa...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:pdgtoe$sf4$1...@dont-email.me...
> > On 15/05/18 18:25, Stephen Thomas Cole wrote:
> >> A thread in The Other Place has prompted me to recall scanning and
> >> archiving this rather beautiful morse code tutorial book:
> >>
> >> https://archive.org/details/TheMorseCodeForRadioAmateurs
> >>
> > I just love the oscillator circuit on page 18.
> > Just wire the HT across your head and fizzzz :-)
> > Maybe there's something in this elf and safe tea after all.
> >
> It won't even work as drawn. Where is the valve filament and LT supply?

We often left them out, especially in simplified circuits.


--

Roger Hayter

[FranK Turner-Smith G3VKI]

"Roger Hayter" <ro...@hayter.org> wrote in message
news:1nowe17.iong7d14ekaaiN%ro...@hayter.org...

The key clicks must have been horrendous.

[Graham.]

I must have had the book too, or at least excerpts from it.
The sending exercises look very familiar.

--

Graham.
%Profound_observation%

[Brian Howie]

In message <pdhs1d$e5d$2...@dont-email.me>, Gareth's Downstairs Computer
<headstone255.but.n...@yahoo.com> writes

I had those records G3HSC ? . I can probably still remember the five
letter groups so ingrained were they. These days learning it is a lot
easier with software by G4FON etc. I use the G4FON trainer to keep me
up to speed.

Brian GM4DIJ
--
Brian Howie