[CTSARA] CW Training

[Jon Perelstein]

I've never been able to get past 13 wpm even with a lot of practicing.  As a
teenager it kept me from the Extra class because I could never hit 20 wpm
despite operating almost solely in CW for months at a time.

Hugo (AA1XV) from GNARC was telling me about the Koch method and the G4FON
software for learning Morse.  The Koch Method was developed by a
psychologist (Ludwig Koch) and is based on starting to learn Morse at the
speed you want to copy (e.g., 20 wpm or 25 wpm) rather than starting at a
slow speed and then trying to get faster.  Here's a link to an article about
the Koch method

http://www.qsl.net/n1irz/finley.morse.html

I've been doing some reading up on the method.  As Andy has said, there are
almost religious fervors about different methods of learning Morse, but this
one seems to get high marks for working fairly well.  People who don't like
it seem to mostly object to it because of who invented it (a German
psychologist of the 1930s) rather than any actual metrics about whether or
not it works.

The G4FON software is a Morse trainer based on the Koch method.  I just
downloaded the software and I'm going to give it a try.  The G4FON software
is at this link

http://www.g4fon.net/


Jon
KB1QBZ