[CW] Teaching Morse Code

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Wow, I forgot an important part.  I sent by hand key, at approximately 18 wpm.  Forget 5 wpm.  If they can do 18, they can learn 5, and 18 is a break off point where they will always remember it, and will have no time to try to learn dit dit dit, but will acknowledge it immediately as an S. 

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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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