[CW] Newby to code (again)

[Jeff Logullo]

Bob,

I suspect you’ll hear from many experts. I’m no expert :-) but I’d like to become one some day. In the meantime, I strongly suggest you try hearing individual characters at 20 to 25 WPM speeds... and go ahead and keep the effective rate slower.

I learned the wrong way -- hearing letters at 5 wpm; then moved up to 13 wpm; and then to 20 wpm. Oh, if only I’d have learned the sound of the characters at 20 wpm... 

Something to consider :-)

In any event, and however you choose to proceed, good luck and best wishes on your journey!

73,
Jeff N0̸MII 


> On Dec 21, 2020, at 11:28 AM, Bob Young <bobyoung53 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi all, 
> 
> This is my first post to this reflector even though I've been subscribed for a long time now. I tried many years ago once and failed to learn code. I did it with a popular program that has you type the letter into your keyboard. I got close to about twenty letters and became confused and discouraged, this was the Koch method. I recently started over again with the G4FON (Koch) method of writing down the characters rather than typing them in, so far this seems to be a lot better way for me and writing them down just seems to make me retain them in my memory a lot better and it's actually enjoyable, I hated type the letters in. I'm starting at 15 WPM with the effective rate either 11 or 13 WPM and am up to my 12th letter and I seem to have reached it quicker than before although I do think I retained some memory unconsciously. So anyway, reading something a few weeks ago here got me interested again and I'm not stopping this time.
> 
> Bob Young
> kb1okl

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