[CW] Teaching Morse Code

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

Years ago, I introduced (in my mind I "perfected") a system of
teaching International Morse code by arranging the introductin of
letters and numbers in a way to avoid dot and dash counting or memory
"short cuts" which actually were a way of getting the correct
identification without really listening to the entire character.

If only characters with dashes were introduced and then the letter "P"
was introduced, that letter could be written down correctly as soon as
the firs tdot was sent  My system avoided that problem.

Unfortunately, I lost the sequence I used.

But a few days ago I came across a pamphlet from PHILLIPS that had a
modern drawing of a radio officer on a ship with modern 1980s
equipment.
https://ia601708.us.archive.org/7/items/Morse_1982_Philips_EU/Morse_1982_Philips_EU_text.pdf

I started to read it and they had a very similar system to what I used
- perhaps better than mine.

Here is the introduction of Morse characters sequence:

PHILLIPS VIDEOPAK 45 Morse


The characters and figures are introduced in the following sequence:

 1     Q
 2     7
 3     Z
 4     G
 5     0     (zero)
 6     9
 7     8
 8     O
 9     1
10     J
11     P
12     W
13     L
14     R
15     A
16     M
17     6
18     B
19     X
20     D
21     Y
22     C
23     K
24     N
25     2
26     3
27     F
28     U
29     4
30     5
31     V
32     H
33     S
34     I
35     T
36     E

73

David N1EA