[CW] Re: [KochMorse] Diminishing returns when learning morse

[Joe - aa4nn]

Interesting comments.
Flash back:  Radio School, Biloxi, MS, 1952, code class, teacher up front 
with hand key and oscillator, painfully slow to start, nothing like 
farnsworth, she'd send a character then say the letter.  Lots of repetition. 
In addition to saying the letter she would repeat something else, for 
example, like for letters:
J - The darned ol' Jay.
X - Slide kelly slide.
Q - Payday today.
and others.  I don't know if this helped, but a 3 hour class, five days a 
week, you learned the code pretty quick.  We copied with a pencil up to 18 
wpm then went to the typewriter, finishing the class copying 25+ wpm on the 
mill.
73, Joe, aa4nn

> 2.  For a period on the order of 30 seconds to two minutes you
> hear the character repetitively, at various speeds and pitches
> and with varying intervals between repetitions.  You also hear
> human voices saying the name of the character-- mixed male and
> female voices, mixed pitches, mixed timbres, mixed accents,
> varying intervals.  In general you hear the voices far less
> frequently than you're hearing the character.