[Elecraft] Learning CW

Wed Oct 29 17:04:00 2003

I did a quick look up myself, Stuart, and didn't find anything about the
history of the Farnsworth system under that name. I have a sort of a
recollection that Farnsworth is post WWII, but I also know the name as the
finally-recognized inventor of electronic television <G>. 

Over the years I have read that some of the old commercial circuits - wire
circuits I believe - did teach code with the letters at high speed and
opened up the spacing at first. Basically the same approach. 

I'm working from memory (which is why I didn't name names <G>) but I one of
them was the old Western Union company who also welded the weights on the
bugs. 

Ron AC7AC

-----Original Message-----
From: Stuart Rohre [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2003 1:50 PM
To: Ron D'Eau Claire; 'Sander Wissing'; [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Learning CW

Ron,
I was under the impression the Farnsworth code training method is of recent
origin, like post WW2?

Certainly, in Germany, the Koch method did not hit its stride until
computers became numerous and cheap. 73, Stuart K5KVH