[CW] Fw: [HamRadioHelpGroup] Re: Code learning speed

Tue Feb 7 22:16:58 EST 2006

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From: "cq2kcom" <cq2kcom at yahoo.com>
To: <HamRadioHelpGroup at yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2006 2:47 PM
Subject: [HamRadioHelpGroup] Re: Code learning speed


> Hi, Let me introduce myself, Jerry Wheeler, the inventor of Code
> Quick. I developed it in 1980 because I had been a ham for 22 years
> at that time and had worked years of CW and had taken the EXTRA
> 20wpm test 15 times without passing. I had tried every blooming
> method on the market and beaten my brains out. Mind you, during that
> time I earned a PHD so most things came to me when I worked, but
> frustrated I was with code!!!  Within six months, I was breezing
> along at 25wpm and decided to put the whole thing on the market.
> Short and simple, it works and cuts off hundreds of hours and maybe
> dozens of years from the learning curve becuase the greatest part of
> your brain is the language area. It jumps in where you already have
> success to give you more.
> Once you know the code at 5wpm and then double time to 10wpm by
> copying every other letter at that speed, you will amaze youself how
> quickly you get them all. Do it again at 20wpm and in less than a
> month, the sound-alikes will disappear into your subconscious and
> you will breeze along with the big boys!
> I would like to challenge someone to poll 500 hams who have learned
> code since 1980 and who work the extra part of the band. Find out
> how many of them started with Code Quick and you will find fast code
> experts started this way than any other!  Want to write an
> intelligent article instead of one full of assumption and ignorance?
> Give it a try. You might help some strugglers instead of frustrating
> them. I have yet to talk to a ham who used Code Quick who says that
> it didn't lead him or her to as much code as they wanted. The only
> critics are those who have never tried it for themselves.
> Jerry W6TJP
>
>
> --- In HamRadioHelpGroup at yahoogroups.com, GerryC <GerryC.1 at ...>
> wrote:
> >
> > I take the liberty of reposting the following message which Ray
> G4FON (the
> > author of the famous code training software) posted in the
> KochMorse
> > reflector
> > W3GERry
> >
> > START REPOST-----------------------------------------------
> > I have said may times that it is important to decide why you are
> using the
> > software. If you are only planning to pass the test, set the
> software to
> > Speed 15 and Effective 5 and learn the code that way. Even
> consider Code
> > Quick as it will build the lookup table in your head for the test,
> but will
> > DESTROY your ability to copy code at a reasonable speed after you
> have
> > passed the test.
> >
> > If, on the other hand, you are planning to use the code after you
> have
> > passed the test, then learn at 15/15 or better still 20/20 and
> once you are
> > comfortable with all the characters and the test is approaching,
> slow down
> > to 15/5 and run the USA QSO file which is available in the files
> section to
> > brush up for the test.
> >
> > I cannot emphasise enough how deadly "Soundalikes" as promoted
> by "Code
> > Quick" and similar programmes are when it comes to actually being
> able to
> > have a Morse QSO on the bands. The whole point of Koch's work,
> which is
> > embedded in this software, is that you should start learning at a
> speed
> > which is too fast for your brains to develop a lookup table. Other
> people on
> > the list have also noted that half a century later their brain
> still holds
> > onto this lookup table. Honestly it is DEADLY.
> >
> > People often ask about this "lookup table" buried deep in your
> brain and
> > wonder what it is. Well, it occurred to me the other day that the
> transition
> > from using this lookup table to being able to reflexively copy the
> Morse is
> > similar to another transition that I made a number of years ago. I
> was not
> > fortunate enough to get typing lessons at any point in my career,
> but I was
> > first introduced to computing as a teenager at the local Technical
> College
> > where they had an ASR33 teleprinter connected to a large timeshare
> computer
> > system. Those days are long gone, but at the time and for a long
> while to
> > follow, I used to enter my programmes 'hunt and peck' on the
> keyboard with
> > two fingers. I became pretty good at it, but decided one day that
> since I
> > was going to be working in computers more and more that I should
> learn to
> > touch type. Well it was a huge struggle to get ten digits working
> where two
> > had gone before and it took me a long time to become fully
> proficient -
> > probably two to three years. I went through the same transition
> that you
> > have to go through if you learn Morse at a slow speed and try to
> slowly
> > increase your speed.
> >
> > That transition is deadly, as I and many others can attest to.
> >
> > So, think about your final goal and set about it in the best
> possible way.
> > Remember that nothing beats regular practice, practice and more
> practice. It
> > is not like riding a bicycle is that it does not suddenly click
> one day, but
> > like riding a bike, once you get the lookup table in place in your
> brain, it
> > is something that you will NEVER forget.
> >
> > Have fun learning the code and I hope to catch you on the air one
> day!
> >
> > 73
> >
> > Ray G4FON / N4FON
> >
> >
> >
> >
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