Re: [CW] "Morse Therapy"

[Danny Douglas]

Bletchely is still in business, and in fact was just a few miles from where
I was stationed.
Danny Douglas
N7DC
ex WN5QMX ET2US WA5UKR ET3USA
SV0WPP VS6DD N7DC/YV5 G5CTB
All 2 years or more (except Novice)
Pls QSL direct, buro, or LOTW preferred,
I Do not use, but as a courtesy do upload to eQSL for
those who do.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Artmouton" <k5fnq at cox.net>
To: "CW Reflector" <cw at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2008 1:13 PM
Subject: Re: [CW] "Morse Therapy"


> 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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