[CW] Learning Morse Code

[D.J.J. Ring, Jr.]

RK,

Longhand written telegrams were still used on some ships!  I typed mine as
typing was faster than cursive, I can barely copy 20 wpm on paper or
nowadays even send that speed on a hand key.  But give me a typewriter and
a semi-automatic key and I'm fit to challenge a telex machine - but I tell
you watching a Baudot code teleprinter (WU, Teletype, etc.) machine churn
out perfect text for hours makes me jealous.

About manual typewriters, I  recommend to people who have had strokes that
they attempt to type even if they cannot use the keys as it "rewires" the
nerves.  Do it just for fun and day by day but slowly things improve.

Readers of this list know about my MILL font for computers which has the
look of a telegrapher's typewriter.  It's a scan of my Royal Empress manual
with slash zero and all capitals. http://www.qsl.net/n1ea/mill_02.ttf -
SAVE  the file don't open it.  Then select it and add to your  fonts.
Search for "how to add TTF fonts to my computer" and add your type
computer, Windows, Mac, Linux or other.

73
DR

On Wed, Feb 7, 2018 at 2:13 AM, Richard Knoppow <1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com>
wrote:

>    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
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