[CW] In your head

[David Ring]

In both our cases, the Morse is already translated!  The ticker tape
is seen as characters of letters, figures, and punctuation.

The ticker tape is very very good!

I can read the letters off the tape or type them on paper.  So either
by ear or by writing I understand.  No dots and dashes are on the
ticker tape!

73
DR

On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 2:16 AM, Ken Brown <ken.d.brown at hawaiiantel.net> wrote:
> Hi Neil,
>
>
>> My mind wants to visualize the incoming
>> stream of
>> Morse as an illuminated LED-like ticker tape.
>
> That is your mistake. Best not to learn code from dot and dash picture
> lists. Good texts on learning code show only a few characters in dot and
> dash form as a visual example of the correct timing. The alphabet, letters
> and punctuation list of character sequences should be shown only in "di dah"
> form to force the learner to relate the sounds and not the visual
> representation of dots and dashes to each letter/numeral/ punctuation.
>>
>> If I only
>> focus on the incoming
>> letters, I can track fairly well. But to get meaning, I need
>> to mentally track
>> the composition of the ticker stream. Parse, somehow, the
>> words. Then concatenate
>> them into meaningful language.
>
> By visualizing the dot and dashes, you must perform several stages of
> translation to get to the text, instead of a single sound to character
> association. The first stage is converting the sound to the ticker tape
> visualization. The second step is the ticker tape visualization to the
> lookup table. There might even be other counting dits and dahs steps in the
> lookup table process.  These unnecessary and indirect conversions limit most
> people to about 15 WPM. You have to abandon that multiple conversion
> process, and relearn the code as a direct association from the letter sound
> to the written (or typed) letter in order to break through the 15 WPM (or
> so) plateau. Eventually it will be multiple letter sounds directly
> associated with words or parts of words, and of course you don't really need
> to write it or type it to comprehend it.
>>
>> Is my ticker tape visualization a temporary way station on
>> the way to just
>> 'getting' chunks of code all at once?
>
> If you have made the unfortunate mistake of learning the code that way, as
> many of us, myself included, have, then it is a temporary way station.
> Perhaps more of a siding than a station. You need to get on the train,
> instead of watching the train go by.
>>
>> The real problem with the ticker tape is that if I mentally
>> scan it backwards
>> to try to pick up word meaning, I've instantly lost focus on
>> the incoming stream --
>> and produce a gap. The gap of course worries me, so I loose
>> the whole ballgame
>> for a bit.
>>
>
> Give up the ticker tape. It is what you need to do, to make the breakthrough
> to direct sound to letter recognition.
>
> I'm sure you'll hear other opinions too.
>
> DE N6KB
>
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