• K7QO’s Morse Code Course v3.0 CD-ROM, by Chuck Adam K7QO

This is a CD containing over 400 megabytes of MP3 files (20 hours) for training the ear for Morse code. Here’s a bit from Chuck on his approach to learning Morse:

My job is to guide you through the swamp of bad habits and keep you from falling into the quicksand. If you learned the code any other way than rote memorization of the sounds, you may need to start over. Anyone that teaches or shows the Morse code with dots and dashes or other visual aids is killing off high speeds and ruining a bunch of good minds. Don’t use any materials or computer programs that show you dits and dahs, etc. for feedback. Only the letters and characters themselves.

You can borrow the library copy at any IARS meeting. Or, you if you have broadband Internet access, you can download the CD-ROM image yourself from:

• http://www.k7qo.net/

We have lots of other books and material in the library too. You can see the library catalog at the IARS Yahoo! group.

• Transmitter Hunting: Radio Direction Finding Simplified
  by Joseph Moell K0OV and Thomas Curlee WB6UZZ

  The authors share their expertise and their tested and proven techniques for all areas of transmitter hunting or, as it is also called, fox-hunting or maverick hunting. You’ll get expert guidance on coping with very weak or very strong signals, equipping your vehicle, planning hunts, closing in on a transmitter, building and using noise meters for additional RDF sensitivity, building and mounting antennas, hunting techniques, tips and “secret weapons” for obtaining winning results, and more. (From the back cover)

• The VK G5RV Handbook
  by Phil Grimshaw

  This book will assist you to understand the G5RV antenna and the means by which it supports multi-band operation. The book goes beyond the original G5RV specification and introduces a variety of G5RV-based antennas for reduced space scenarios. (From the introduction)

You can see these books and many others at the next meeting of the Illawarra Amateur Radio Society on Tuesday 11 September.

Neil VK2VNJ (Librarian)