Learn morse with The Ham Band

A new song and video about rebuilding a ham radio contest station while at the same time teaches the viewer the Morse code will soon be here.

It's from a musical group called the Ham Band.
Lissa Ladefoged, of the Ham Band gives us a bit of background on what lead to the song being written and the video being produced:

Lissa: "What happened was that we had a small fire in the shack. The fire was caused by an electrical short. So, we actually had to empty the shack. This gave us the opportunity to completely rebuild and we filmed the whole process from the burying of a huge copper grounding plate and the rewiring of all the filters and switches and the installation of rhe three HF stations. Finally the whole station was given a workout by our team in several contests."

For those of you new to the the hobby, the Ham Band is a group of musicians based in Denmark who do music about ham radio. Andrew John Huddleston, OZ1XJ is the group's leader and his wife Lissa Ladefoged is the key soloist. They are the only group to ever release an CD that consists only of songs about ham radio.

Called Seek You - it was introduced several years ago at the Dayton Hamvention and was a sell-out.

Since then the groups on-line video single titled "Come And Join Us On The Airwaves" has been at the top of the YouTube charts with over 90,000 views so far. Lissa says the new song could set a record, but not in the way you might think:

Lissa: "The song is in three styles. First we have the French musette. And then the Viennese waltz and we wind up with the German oom-pah.

Each verse introduces letters and numbers in Morse code so that all numbers and letters are mentioned in the course of the 15 minute song.

The song also changes key twenty-four times se we expect to get into the Guinnes Book of Records."

Andrew and Lisa say that they hope you will enjoy the new song's preview video

You can also view their classic video 'Come And Join Us On The Airwaves' from the album "Seek You" (scroll down).

'Come And Join Us On The Airwaves'

www.hamband.com

Source: Amateur Radio Newsline