[CW] Newby to code (again)

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

Congratulations, Bob, keep at it, legendary Hawaiian Morse instructor,
Katashi Nose, KH6IJ had his students copying 17 to 20 words per minute
within a month with that method which sadly has fallen into disuse.

I wish I had asked him if he had increased the both speed of Morse and the
spacings between characters and words as in the Koch method, but I never
thought to do so despite talking to him in person in Massachusetts and
later in Honolulu when my ship was in port there.

I have some Morse resources listed on my web page, http://qsl.net/n1ea/
Maybe some will be helpful.

Use what works!

73

DR
N1EA

On Mon, Dec 21, 2020, 12:28 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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