[CW] Reading With the Ears

Richard Knoppow 1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com
Fri Mar 15 13:25:52 EDT 2019


    I find this interesting, my own experience is that reading by 
ear and reading by writing it down are different; learning one 
may not teach you the other. I think sending is still another 
function, it is reasonably well known that one can be good at 
sending and not receiving or vice-versa.
    No one seems to have done research, or at least none that 
I've seen, about the difference between reading tones and reading 
from a sounder. I think they are different. I add to this the 
combined skills of being able to write code on a typewriter.
    I am also curious about the correlation, if any, between 
translating code and understanding speech. Also, what difference 
is there, if any, between people trained to use a pictographic 
written language and a phonetic one?
    In general, I think translating code to words is far from 
simple or trivial despite having been a fairly common ability.
    Another thought, inspired by the note about QRM: I have 
watched an "expert" CW op who was just paralyzed if he heard more 
than one CW signal. I am not such an expert but have always been 
able to distinguish among several signals with different tones or 
even different rhythms. I think this is not an unusual ability. 
What say others here.
    Reading Morse seems to be far from a trivial process.
On 3/14/2019 8:23 PM, D.J.J. Ring, Jr. wrote:
> An interesting article, thanks to Shin, JA1NUT.
> 
> Modern neuroscience has shown deciphering Morse code is identical 
> or comparable to reading printed matters. The problem is how and 
> what to write with it. Only 599 or meaningless numbers?
> 
> 
> http://nuttycellist-unknown.blogspot.com/2012/09/reading-with-ears.html
> 
> Shin is a retired physician and an excellent Morse operator.  He 
> likes to rag chew, listen for him an hour before dawn on 40M 
> around 7021 to 7033 kHz.
> 
> There's QRM in Asia on exactly 7020 kHz.
> 
> 73
> 
> DR

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Richard Knoppow
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