[CW] learnin CW

[N7DC@cs.com]

In a message dated 12/28/2003 10:39:02 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
wa2afd@hotmail.com writes: 
> 
> A retired army colonel friend of mine was a communications guy who learned 
> the code at Ft. Devens, Mass, and came out of it at just 18-19 wpm..And that 
> was in 1965
> 
> Of course hams did much better.
> 
OHHH Dont get me wrong .  No hostility intended here at all.  I merely wanted 
all to know how to put the two systems together.  It appears to be easy to do 
with that software, if you can add letters as you want.  Using the groups 
ETAIONS , etc., one letter at a time would work perfectly with it.  I normally 
teach using an old DOS package that does exactly the same thing (senior moment 
and cant think of the name rite now).  

   And yes Hams did do much better at Devens.  I am a graduate of that 
program also, circa July 1960.  When I went in, I managed to fail the little three 
letter CW test the army gave us .  ( I had no desire to use that and wanted to 
go to language school).  The army conveniently lost my security paperwork 
(twice) and wouldn't send me to The Presido (sp) even though I had passed the 
language test, because I didn't have a clearance yet.  So, they sent me to code 
school. ([(The idiots, in the meantime -- had me counting classified documents 
in the vault))) The first day, I asked what happened if we didn't pass their 
intended 5 wpm the first week.  The response was: Security guard school, pole 
lineman, or cook.  I took the 5wpm and passed it within 10 minutes.  I passed 32 
wpm a few months later (the fastest tapes they had then), and graduated 2nd 
out of a class of 110.  Walked out of there and went down and took my General, 
Advanced and Extra and packed for Ethiopia the next day.  That was my "award" 
for being high in the graduation class.  HI.

Anyway it easy to teach using those two combined methods, and no I had never 
heard of either name, prior to the last few years, so guess I wasn't first, 
but came up with the same ideas plus combined them.  It works.  Have taught 
several dozens of Scouts over the years, and every one who had any intention to 
learning at all, did so.  There have been a few failures, because they never 
came back after the first lesson.  But, none who completed my course ever failed, 
and that includes the written parts too.  I teach to learn, not memorize to 
pass.  
73
Danny


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