[CW] New Morse Streaming Internet Radio Station W3TTT

[Richard Knoppow via CW]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rick Dettinger" <k7mw78 at gmail.com>
To: "Richard Knoppow" <1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com>
Cc: "CW Reflector" <cw at mailman.qth.net>; "D.J.J. Ring, Jr." 
<n1ea at arrl.net>
Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2014 10:11 AM
Subject: Re: [CW] New Morse Streaming Internet Radio Station 
W3TTT


Richard,

Thanks for the info about the Koch Trainer.
I will check it out.
If a speech recognition program got the spelling and 
punctuation wrong, the result would resemble the internet. 
New English!

73,
Rick Dettinger  K7MW


     The Koch trainer was written by G4FON and is at:
http://www.g4fon.net/CW%20Trainer.htm

I used this to get my speed up and for general practice. You 
can download the text versions of the QST practice and use 
the program to send them at selectable speeds, tone, etc., 
or any other text file.
    My speed is not particularly high and it varies around. 
I find that copying actual CW off the air is helpful because 
of its imperfections. One can get used to copying perfect 
fists and find the actual stuff on the air is paralysingly 
bad. That goes away with a little practice. I also find it 
useful to start at a high speed, faster than I can copy than 
short words, and then drop down, like swinging two bats.  I 
am partially deaf and think the deafness has affected my 
accuity.  Not sure. I also think something happens between 
about 15 WPM and faster, a difference in the way the brain 
interprets the code.  When I am good I can copy up to about 
40 WPM, at least several words at a time. Then get lost and 
have a hard time getting back. At "slow" speeds, slower than 
about 20 WPM, where I can write it down by hand, I seldom 
miss much but have been training myself to read by ear.  I 
learned to write it down and that copying didn't matter if 
you didn't write it down.  Now I am not so sure. I also 
practice taking code on a typwriter. I can touch type and 
have the curious experience of being able to copy the 
letters without knowing what I am copying until reading it. 
Both typing and code are somehow important to me and I try 
to keep up an improve the skills. Someday shorthand:-)


--
Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles
WB6KBL
dickburk at ix.netcom.com