[CW] Copy speed (Was: Straight key vs paddle)

[K0HB]

Navy Radiomen didn't know what the heck a pencil was. Everything was copied 
on an Underwood Model 5 typewriter, no lower case.

I already knew Morse (as a ham with a pencil) when I joined the Navy, and 
that was a huge disadvantage in radio school, since copying on a mill is a 
completely different skill, especially since you didn't copy legible words 
(in your head like a ham) but 5-letter coded groups.

Hams and Navy Morse operators have little in common, unless the ham is a 
Morse traffic handler who uses a typewriter.

73, de Hans, K0HB
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From: "Joe, aa4nn" <aa4nn at earthlink.net>
Sent: Monday, April 19, 2010 7:02 PM
To: "CW Reflector" <cw at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: [CW] Copy speed (Was: Straight key vs paddle)

> You all have good ideas...
> 1. Use a ball point pen...less drag
> 2. If printing upper case, letter E is a backward 3, one pen stoke.
> 3. In Military training we only pencil copy to 18 wpm, then to the mill.
> 4. If you must copy, practice using keyboard into MS Word, not pencil and 
> paper.
> 5. Don't react so quickly to each morse element...copy behind a little 
> bit.
> 6. I.e. concentrate.  Let the code pass thru your head before writing it 
> down.
> 7. Listening to code faster than you can actually copy will help increase 
> speed.
> de Joe, aa4nn
> Lake Wylie, SC
>
>
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