[CW] Diminishing returns when learning morse - NO! , you are not practicing properly!!

[David J. Ring, Jr.]

Hello,

When teaching people code, people with short term memory problems will be 
slower learners because they don't remember short term.  However the 
learning of morse code is something that must be integrated into long term 
memory - something that takes place (or "must" take place) around 13 wpm 
because without the "automatic" response provided by long term memory, this 
speed would be unattainable.

Short term deficient students usually show a difficulty in learning morse, 
but somewhere around 9 wpm they "shoot up" way off  the chart, and go to the 
head of the class often getting up to 15 or so wpm in short time.  I believe 
this is because their efforts have put their knowledge of the code into long 
term memory quicker than others who are still using short term memory to 
"help" them decipher the code.

73

David N1EA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sherrill Watkins" <Sherrill.Watkins at dgs.virginia.gov>
Don't worry about short term memory! That only shows that you have
not developed it! It will quickly start to develop when you start to learn
the code properly and DO NOT GET DISCOURAGED; the beginning part is the
hardest! I appologise for the length of this post.- 73- Sherrill W. k4own.
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