This is a list of CW/Morse code learning and practice resources that I have come across and found useful. Some of these really helped me be as good at CW operating as I am today. I’ll try to categorize them and give a good description of each as I go along.
This is how I was first introduced to studying CW/Morse code. This is a pretty simple but powerful website that gets it all right. If you want to learn CW using the Koch Method, this is a great place to get it. You can start with just a few letters, then add more as you build confidence.
There are also plenty of useful tools on this website for generating callsigns, words, and sentences for you to practice copying down.
Nothing on this website for sending unfortunately, but an excellent resource for copy practice for both beginners and experts alike.
This is a website I frequent quite often for practice. The concept is very simple and very powerful. As the name suggests, this is a virtual CW “band” that allows you to talk to other users in public and private rooms, without having to get on the actual airwaves. This is an invaluable resource if you want to get actual conversational practice, but you aren’t yet confident enough to get on the air or aren’t even licensed yet!
There isn’t any special hardware required to use the website; you can use your keyboard as either a straight or iambic key. However, to truly get the full experience, I highly suggest picking up their VBand Adapter for $25. This will allow you to connect any straight, iambic, or cootie/swiper key to their website and practice what it will feel like to send with a real key.
But wait, there’s more! The way this adapter works is very simple, it converts the left/right paddle presses of your key to presses of left/right ctrl on an emulated keyboard. This means that other websites and applications can (and do!) use this very same adapter, making it even more worth having, in my opinion.
I’ve been using this one quite a bit to practice my copying. I like this site a lot because I find it’s great for practicing conversational morse code skills. Sure, you can drill copying short QSOs like callsigns and other formats that are used often, but if you want to be able to ragchew and carry a conversation for more than a sentence, you’ll need a whole other set of skills. Sometimes, you don’t need to get the message down character for character, you just need to get the meaning of the message.
This site has a collection of stories that you can listen to in morse code. You’ll need to copy down what is being said, then you’ll answer a quiz at the end of the story. This is great, because you’re not getting graded on the exact copying of each character. Rather, if you can copy enough of the message to get the meaning, you should be able to answer the questions at the end.