March 6th, 2018

Approaching the end of the Level 2 CWOps training course, my CW advisor Keith G0HKC gave to the class a very challenging exercise, which was the CW version of the Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway, encoded by Petr OK7AN. This way, for me the morse code finished completely to be a bunch of dit and dahs to be decoded and used for QSOs and became a language to learn.

Incidentally yesterday I came by an excerpt from a book of Alejandro Jodorowsky which I’ve found to be ideal for CW head-copy for two main reasons. Firstly, they are a list of not-dependent phrases, so if you loose one you can still go on and copy the next one. Then, since the contents are partuclarly inspiring, I found that decoding becomes a discover.

I’ve formatted the text a bit and using DJ1YFK’s very good ebook2cw I’ve produced the mp3 file you can download and enjoy.

mp3 file	wpm	spacing
The 82 commandments	20	15
The 82 commandments	20	20
The 82 commandments	25	20

Here is the text of the files above.