[CW] "The Ham Whisperer" Morse Code Course

[Richard Knoppow]

    The best I've found is the G4FON program. This has come built 
in text files but will also read any text file as code. The other 
good source is the ARRL W1AW site. This has speeds to 40WPM, 
files are MP3 and also text. I sometimes save the text files for 
use with the G4FON application. I am not a natural code person. I 
have been working on it for 60 years. My goal is to be able to 
read by ear at 40WPM or faster. I can sometimes do it. Can write 
it as fast as I can write and have worked a little on typing. I 
have damaged hearing which doesn't help at all. It takes constant 
practice but be careful of becoming fatigued. OTOH, I have a good 
fist on both straight keys and bugs up to maybe 40WPM which is 
where my arthritis makes itself felt. Never had trouble sending 
but receiving is another matter. These days its not difficult to 
find all sorts of sources of code for reading, when I started one 
had to listen off air and most of the sources, like commercial 
maritime stations, were much too fast.
     Just keep at it. When you feel tired stop. Can help to stop 
for a few days and then come back to it.
     Reading actual code off the air with noise, QRM, bad fists, 
is different. You need that too. The idea, of course, is to be 
able to communicate with people including those who don't send 
very well. I have never found any magic, just keep it up.

On 11/17/2021 1:23 PM, N4JO wrote:
> This site was helpful in learning the characters, but what I (and 
> presumably others) need now is reading practice: specifically 
> words. I've had to resort to building my own text files with 
> words repeated a specific number of times (100 most frequently 
> used x 10, x 5, x 4, x 3, etc). I start off with the high repeat 
> count then  go down to lesser repeat counts as I get better and 
> better at identifying the word. It would be really nice to have 
> an app for my phone that uses the Pimsleur language Method, which 
> introduces you to words, then in the course of introducing new 
> words it repeats the older words with decreasing frequency to 
> encourage retention. I have a phone app that plays my text files 
> with programmable speed and Farnsworth delay, but it's a 
> challenge to produce the files. It would be nice to have an app 
> that manages repeat frequency automatically.
> 
> Julian, n4jo.
> 
> 
> On 11/17/2021 3:13 PM, David J. J. Ring, Jr. wrote:
>> Andy, KE4GKP has put together a nice Morse code course on his 
>> "The Ham Whisperer" web site.
>>
>> http://www.hamwhisperer.com/p/morse-code-course.html
>>
>> He also has license theory practice courses - expired sylabi - 
>> but nevertheless still quite useful.
>>
>> 73
>> DR
>>
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