[CW] Teaching Morse Code

Wed Jan 23 12:59:08 EST 2019

I use a simlar, but different sequence.  You can actually use a newspaper, magazine, or textbook and count the number of each letter used in a page or more, and come up with which ones are use the most, and the least.  I came up with a sequence back in the 50s, to teach Scouts, and others the code.  
E  - being the most used letter in the alphabet.  then
T
A
I
O
N
S

Thats just the first group, and you can teach them easily and quickly.  One letter at a time, having them print the letter you sent. E, then add a T in there and insure they understand the difference.  Then send A a few times, then mix the three together , and finally send them as words:   ATE , TEA,  EAT.  Then I, a few times,  add the first three, and spell more words.  When do the same with the rest of the letters.   At the end, you will have dozens of ways to spell.  Stop awhile and go to the next group.  I have used the method for over 60 years, and actually had one young boy learn the whole Alphabet and was able to copy one minute of perfect code in 30 , yet 30 minutes.  It was a one on one situation, so I was able to see exactly what he was copying as I sent the learning portion, so could repeat and re-repeat the harder ones till he got them perfect. No one else ever came close to that.   Think my largest group was 15-20 students.  Larger than that, it becomes more difficult to insure they all are getting there.    You can look up the 1985 BSA Jamboree and K2BSA to see the results of just one small group, who learned it in two days, and nailed their NOVICE exam as well.  One even got TECHNICIAN ticket from it. People can do what they want to do.      

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> On January 23, 2019 at 12:32 PM pa0wv <pa0wv at amsat.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> D.J.J. Ring, Jr. schreef op 2019-01-23 15:31:
> > 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.
> 
> Everybody has one chance to learn Morse code. You can't learn it with 
> two methods and compare them.
> \
> So ask the present QRQQ fraternity how they did it, that is enough and 
> sufficient.
> 
> When the presented Philps sequence is learning in lesson 3 and lesson 4 
> a B and figure 6 , that tells enough about the method. For me at least.
> 
> 
> Funny in the presented courses, last page of your link, chinese logic is 
> presented as a course subject;
> 
> As far as I knew there were only two kinds of logic: 1. mathematical 
> logic and 2. female logic but now I know there is a third kind: Chinese 
> logic.
> 
> 73+55=30
> > 
> > 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
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