How To Learn Morse Code with Learn CW Online (LCWO)
Channel: N0SSC
Date: 2020-05-04

This is the definitive answer to the question "How to learn Morse Code?"

Learn CW Online (LCWO, https://lcwo.net/) is a free website that trains Morse code using farnsworth timing and the Koch method, provides real-time feedback and stats, and might just be the best possible way to learn CW in the modern era.

CW QSO Structure: http://www.naqcc.info/cw_qsos.html
Morse Code abbreviations: https://www.qsl.net/w5www/abbr.html
Example QSO .txt files: http://www.smrcc.org.uk/Morse/morse.htm

0:00 Bottom Line Up Front
1:48  How Do I Learn Morse Code?
2:30  About Learn CW Online (LCWO) 
2:54 Account Creation and Introduction
3:13 Your First Letters, K and M (the Koch Method)
3:55 Changing LCWO settings and speeds
4:36 Your first Lesson
5:16 But What If I mess up a letter? 
5:50 Reviewing your Results and Advancing
8:28 Practice every day, 15 mins a day! 
9:13 What NOT to do to get GOOD at Morse Code 
11:58 The BEST way to get GOOD at Morse Code
12:29 You've learned all the characters, now what? (Word Training)
14:10 Increasing your speed and learning whole words as sounds
16:43 CW QSO Structure and Common Abbreviations
18:12 QTC Training in LCWO
18:55 Callsign and Plain Text Training in LCWO
19:11 Use Context to Fill In Blanks
19:44 Convert Text to CW for practice
20:00 The BEST way to get AWESOME at Morse Code (GET ON THE AIR)
21:15 Using WebSDRs to practice on-air listening

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