[CTSARA] CW Training

[Franklyn A. Ballentine, jr]

There's also Learn CW Online
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frank b.

On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 5:24 PM, Jon Perelstein <jperelst at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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
>
>
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