[CW] Zen and the Art of Radiotelegraphy, English Edition !

[D.J.J. Ring, Jr.]

QTC

From: Carlo Consoli <ik0ygj at tiscali.it>

Hi all,
last year I wrote a book "Lo Zen e l'Arte della Radiotelegrafia", it is now
translated in English, there is also a mention to SSN in the sideswiper
pages.

This book is the result of several years of experience in amateur
radiotelegraphy. It suggests, for the first time, a learning methodology
based on an integrated and multidisciplinary approach designed to accompany
the apprentice from the first steps in ham radio all the way to a
world-class proficiency in telegraphy. The book introduces, ad-hoc tailored
to amateur radio, techniques used successfully by competitive athletes,
including extreme sports such as free diving, adapted to the difficult
process of learning telegraphy.

This book is not only written for the benefit of amateur radio operators who
want to learn this beautiful art, but it also meets the urgent need felt by
the author to narrate his own path of development that has radically
transformed him and the many friends with whom he shared the pleasure of
such a long learning process and the immense joy of the discovery, both from
the technical and from the human point of view.

After a century of successes, in 1998, coastal maritime radiotelegraphy
installations have been replaced by satellite communications, which
eventually provided a much more secure and reliable connection. As a result,
telegraphy is slowly sliding into oblivion. As a direct and inevitable
consequence, in 2005 telegraphy also disappeared from amateur radio exams.
Surprisingly, this condition of uselessness elevated radiotelegraphy the
rank of an art.
Despite this aging process, telegraphy is still very much alive with radio
amateurs, because it offers the possibility of communicating over great
distances using less expensive transmitting and receiving devices.

A contact based on telegraphy is made in a universal language that, like
Esperanto, pulls down any social, geographical and cultural barrier. The
amateur radio operator uses a code that not only shortens the speech, but
also allows him to communicate with people living in any part of the globe,
near or distant, regardless their language or culture. Thus, wireless
operators can greet each other using a common language even if one is
Chinese and the other Guatemalan.

This book is distributed under the Creative Commons license and can be
freely copied or distributed, under certain conditions (see the Copyright
Notices chapter for details). This work is “QSLWare”: if you like it, just
send me a QSL card via Buro.

You can download it here:

http://www.qsl.net/ik0ygj/enu/index.html

If you like my work, please share this note with your friends !

Carlo
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