{"id":2872,"date":"2017-05-09T11:53:48","date_gmt":"2017-05-09T11:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tsgarc.uk\/?p=2872"},"modified":"2017-05-09T11:59:17","modified_gmt":"2017-05-09T11:59:17","slug":"cwops-improve-your-morse-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tsgarc.uk\/?p=2872","title":{"rendered":"Improve your Morse code"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There a few club members who know Morse code and would like to improve their skills in one way or another. \u00a0Speaking with members, I&#8217;ve heard mention of <a href=\"https:\/\/fists.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">FISTS<\/a> but never of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cwops.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CWOPS<\/a>. \u00a0I know an amateur who has spent the last year with the CWOPS Academy program and who has greatly increased their speed and accuracy of receiving and sending.<\/p>\n<p>Not to be forgotten is also the slow Morse transmissions by amateurs here in the UK on behalf of the <a href=\"http:\/\/rsgb.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">RSGB<\/a>. \u00a0This is how I originally learnt the code.<\/p>\n<p>So, for those who may be interested, I&#8217;ve posted the links below:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cwops.org\/cwacademy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CWOPS Academy\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/fists.co.uk\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">FISTS<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/operating\/morse\/certificate-of-competency\/gb2cw-broadcast-schedule\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">RSGB<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Andrew<\/em><br \/>\n<em> G0RVM<\/em><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There a few club members who know Morse code and would like to improve their skills in one way or another. \u00a0Speaking with members, I&#8217;ve heard mention of FISTS but never of CWOPS. \u00a0I know an amateur who has spent &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsgarc.uk\/?p=2872\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[244,243,17,11,27],"class_list":["post-2872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-cwops","tag-fists","tag-g0rvm","tag-morse","tag-tsgarc"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tsgarc.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tsgarc.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tsgarc.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tsgarc.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tsgarc.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2872"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.tsgarc.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2877,"href":"https:\/\/www.tsgarc.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2872\/revisions\/2877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tsgarc.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tsgarc.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tsgarc.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}