[CW] Learning Morse Code

[Richard Knoppow]

    Thank you for posting this. It reinforces what I learned long 
ago.
    I started learning code when I was about 12. I am still 
working at it. There is so much contradictory advice around that 
its very confusing. When I started I had a military handbook on 
learning code, its advice was that below, write it down. So, I 
taught myself to write it down. After a while I gave up on the 
Army style printing, its much too slow, and started using long 
hand which is much faster. I have since read that telegraph 
operators took code in longhand before typewriters were invented.
     I also taught myself to touch type but that was many years 
later. I would probably be a faster typist had I learned it in a 
school with all the drills. I did make sure to teach myself the 
correct way. I still practice every day in addition to what I 
type in e-mail. I mostly type on an old mechanical typewriter, 
mostly a couple of Underwood machines. The typing has been 
helpful with my arthritis and now with healing from carpal tunnel 
surgery. BTW, that works, my left hand became almost useless and 
is now just fine. I will have my right hand done in a month or so.
     I wish I knew shorthand but I can still learn it. There are 
times when it would have been of considerable practical use.
     Enough babbling.

On 2/3/2018 10:09 AM, D.J.J. Ring, Jr. wrote:
> Learn Morse Code! Switch it up. Write letters down, don't write 
> them down. Listen to an eBook, make one here: 

-- 
Richard Knoppow
1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com
WB6KBL