Re: [CW] "Morse Therapy"

[Artmouton]

In another time you would have been at Bletchley Park, decoding German 
Enigma messages
Art K5FNQ

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Ring" <n1ea at arrl.net>
To: "CW Reflector" <cw at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 11:46 PM
Subject: [CW] "Morse Therapy"


> "Morse Therapy"
> by Gary Bold, ZL1AN - originally from Morsum Magnificant
>
>
> Many times, over the years, I've finished writing a lecture
> late at night. The house is asleep, but my mind is wide
> awake. I know that if I go to bed now, I'll just lie awake
> and the ideas I have to propound in the morning will rush
> madly about, echoing and muttering in my brain. My
> solution has always been to fire up the TS-520, limber
> up the Brown Brothers paddle, put on the cans and
> exchange CW for a while with someone on 20 metres.
>
> After a while the Morse begins to decode itself automatically.
> My pulse-rate slows, and the network theorems and Fourier
> transforms of my professional life go away. I have almost
> become one with the radio, a bionic post-processor tacked
> on the end of the audio chain.
>
> CW is the purest form of communication I know, a
> 'mind-to-mind' linkage. The words appear right inside
> my head, words that were never spoken; uncorrupted by
> accents, verbal peculiarities, oddities of vocal intonation.
> They leave no room for other thoughts. Almost like a form
> of meditation. Very therapeutic. After thirty minutes of that,
> my metabolism has been slowed right down and I'm relaxed.
> I can go to bed and sleep comes.
>
> All of us who have been hams for a long time go through
> phases. That's one of the nice things about our hobby,
> there are so many outlets for our nuttiness. I've been an
> antenna nut, a Dx hunter, a transmatch experimenter, a
> keyer builder, a phasing SSB enthusiast, a CW keyboard
> freak.
>
> All these phases have passed, but my first love is still CW.
> Its the mode I go back to whenever I need to wind down and
> recharge the batteries. There's something about the essential
> simplicity and purity of Morse that, for me, all the other modes
> lack."
>
> Not my words, but certainly reflects my amateur radio
> experience! I usually "copy" CW using the computer
> keyboard, copying to the Notepad of Win 95. However,
> after awhile, it seems easier just to watch the words
> forming in my mind, as the above author has stated.
> That IS very relaxing, and quite simple after one follows
> the proper CW learning methods, e.g., the Koch method,
> and listening to CW daily, for a half-hour or so at a time
> at speeds, say 5 wpm faster than you can comfortably
> copy with a pencil or keyboard. In a few weeks or months,
> there they are, the words in your minds eye!
>


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