Monday, November 20, 2017

CW rhythm words

BENS BEST BENT WIRE

Due to the inherent rhythm in Morse Code, some stuff is just fun to hear. If you swing your Bug a bit or don't have the most perfect 3:1 DAH-DIT element timing it can sound even more interesting.

The old timers all know this stuff but for those of us new(ish) to CW there are still these little gems we keep finding... like how sending the words BENS BEST BENT WIRE sound in CW when they are all crammed together .

If you've never played around with rhythmic sounding words during your off-air practice just give it a whirl.  If you do it on a bug with a bit of liberal timing it can be even more fun.

BENS BEST BENT WIRE

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So play around with it and if you have other interesting sounding texts in CW please comment or email them to me.



That's all for now...

So lower your power and raise your expectations

72/73
Richard, AA4OO

2 comments:

  1. Richard.....great article. I’m old school, with a straight key or sideswiper, and I have been told that I have a “musical” fist. (I do play piano, btw). Patterns in speech do translate well into code. It is even possible to accentuate a letter or syllable with a mechanical key through pacing and timing. Love it. De N6XJP, Dave

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  2. I have always liked the sound of BEST BENT WIRE TREE. As a CW op, I guess those two E's at the end just make it sound finished. The BEST BENT pair play off a very common musical device: Question, Answer, Same Question, Different Answer, and depend on S and N taking the same time to send to make it sound right.

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