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For Expert Village, this is Kurt, N7QJM. Today, we?re talking about, you are listening to
actual Morse Code at ten words per minute in preparations for the test. I used a cassette
tape off this particular series to actually study through something?s. Can you recognize
any to the code? Can you recognize any of it? I hope you can hear a little of it, there.
That will tell you a little about preparation and study for the tests. You can use these
preparation guides, I'll try it in here so you can see it, but these preparation guides
are excellent. You can also use the Internet. Now, there's one other thing and I want to
show you a quick graphic here of my log. The logs are also very important to keep. So,
that you can keep track of who you're communicating with and when and what conditions were like.
You can go back. Now, before, in the years ago, you would have to have a log file, but
now, as you can see here, you don't need to keep them anymore. I tend to do it simply
out of convenience's sake. It's always nice to keep track of who I've talked to and of
some of the important events that have happened. Now, there's one other piece here that you
can do, and that is who you talked to. I like to log those in. Sometimes, I can't get the
complete call or I don't have the right address, or something or another. And, I use, what
I call this particular piece here, you can get them on DVD or on CD. Let's see if this
is in focus in any way shape or form. These are just optical media, and they contain the
amateur ham radio call book; the entire call book, which used to be in paper form. It contains
it all. These are typically made by Buckmaster. I pay for this, you can get a subscription
service and have the log of all of the hams worldwide, that have been registered, anyway,
into a database that runs off of these disks. So, there you have it with the log book and
a little bit of Morse Code at ten words a minute. We'll close out with some more Morse
Code as we leave, we're going to be saying 73's. Okay, well that does it in terms of
this particular series. Be sure to check my other series on amateur radio, or ham radio.
You can search for it either way here on Expert Village. Again, I'm Kurt Glaser, N7QJM. Thanks
for watching. Be sure to put comments down and if I can be of any help, go ahead and
send an email. My email address is online there as well and we'll try to assist you
or at least try to steer you in the right direction for amateur radio operating. Again,
it's N7QJM, we're off and 73's.