Hi Ron, I'd completely agree with that, having used G4FON's excellent
Koch trainer to get started, I found copying my mentor's Morse a
little difficult when I first started and he sends very good Morse on
a S/K. But after a little while, I got better at it. I'm up to ~ 8 WPM
with him now.
I need to listen a lot on the bands now and try to copy, so I'm not
completely blown away by a different fist. Oh and I've taken on board
something both he and someone else I spoke with in JOTA at the weekend
have repeatedly said - just have Morse playing in the background, the
brain absorbs it, in the same way we first absorb human speech when we
are a baby.
Lastly, why am I saying Morse all the time and not CW? Because I feel
CW has the connotation of transmitted Morse via carrier wave (a mode),
were as Morse means the 'code', but maybe not transmitted, maybe
played from a recording. - Feel free to correct me.
73 de M0XDF, K3 #174
--
I don't mind that you think slowly but I do mind that you are publishing
faster than you think.
-Wolfgang Pauli, physicist, Nobel laureate (1900-1958)
On 21 Oct 2008, at 04:04, Ron D'Eau Claire wrote:
IMHO, if someone wants to be really proficient at reading Morse,
they need
to practice, practice, practice reading a variety of not-so-perfect
manual
fists. That's the next step beyond learning to copy machine-perfect
CW.
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