[CW] q vs y

[DANNY DOUGLAS]

Heaven help us.  If one learned the code that way, he seldom gained any 
speed at all.  Ive seen such schemes since my early days as a boy scout, and 
the simply did not work well enough, and were soon overpowerd with simply 
listening to the sounds.  Its almost as bad as sitting and writting down .- 
....   .   .-    -..   etc.  and then having to go back and look them up, as 
I have heard some have done when taking the tests.  Drop all such 
thoughts/schemes, go back and start listening to fast code and you will be 
much better off.

Danny Douglas
N7DC
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stan Barr" <g0clv at dsl.pipex.com>
To: "CW Reflector" <cw at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Saturday, January 30, 2010 1:16 PM
Subject: Re: [CW] q vs y


> George Allgood wrote:
>> Derek,
>>
>> Good or bad for learning,  the musical phrase "HERE COMES THE BRIDE"
>> is  a perfect match for the rhythm of the morse letter "Q"  DAH DAH 
>> DI-DAH.
>> The letter "Y"  is DAH DI-DAH DAH which could be matched with the cadence 
>> of
>> the word
>> COL-O-RAH-DOH.   You could likely find an associational match for all the
>> Morse characters,
>> but it might drastically slow down the process of learning the code.
>
> Back in the 1930s someone came up with a whole alphabet of such phrases,
> but I can't find a reference just now.
> It started out:
>
> A = Able
> B = Baby-bit-it
> C = Cheeky-Charlie
>
> Q, I remember, was "Queer-khaki-cow" so CQ was "Cheeky Charlie's queer
> khaki cow" :-)
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