[InHam] New CW Training - FREE

[KB9BVN]

The Midstates Amateur Radio Club is going to start a CW training course the 
first week of December, providing we have enough interest.  The CW training 
will be the Chuck Adams K7QO CW Course.  If you are interested in being a 
student please let me know.  Right now it looks like we will be on the air 
from about 6:20PM to 7PM Sunday Nights on the MARC repeater system.  The 
frequency for this system is 146.835 with a PL of 151.4

If you are interested, you will need to have a computer with a CD ROM drive, 
the course is on CD ROM and I will be making copies to give out at the 
November MARC meeting (November 21st).  You need a MP3 player, or software 
on your computer than can play MP3 files.

The CD ROM can also be downloaded from: http://www.kkn.net/~k7qo/

It is 400MB is size and this is an ISO file.  You use the ISO file to make 
the actual CD ROM.  If you do not know how to deal with an ISO file, just 
come to the meeting and get a copy of the disk from me.  If you can't make 
it to the meeting, I will burn you a CD ROM, and mail it to you for $3.00 - 
this covers my materials and mailing.  Just let me know how you want it.

The class will be about 5 mins of instructions, 20 mins of CW copy, and 5 
mins of QA.  There is over 10 hours of MP3 recordings in this free course, 
if you can spend a mere 15-20 minutes a DAY listening to the lessons, and 
following Chuck's instructions in the manual, you'll be able to send and 
copy CW at a decent rate in less than a month.  Imagine being able to 
particpate in Straight Key Night on New Years Eve!

The over the air CW sessions will give you all a chance to copy in a more 
realistic environment than just listening to the MP3 player.  I figure these 
sessions will run Dec and Jan, and then if the interest is there we can run 
it again in the spring.

100's and 100's of hams have used the K7QO CW Course to learn Morse code, 
you can too, but I must warn you...CW is addicting and FUN!

73 de KB9BVN
Brian Murrey
kb9bvn at gmail.com