[Elecraft] Re: CW Recognition

[DOUGLAS ZWIEBEL]

Hi all:

Well, before this thread is terminated by the moderator....I really
know what the "military" folks are talking about, even though I never
partook.

One year, I decided that it would be cool to copy using a typewriter,
so I "started over" learning the code in sync with typing.  And it I
really did have to relearn "what to do" as I copied each sound.  What
ended up happening is just what has been described.

The sound (not words, not dits, not dahs) would enter my ear, be
processed by brain without any comprehension at all, and my fingers
would magically hit the correct keys (on the typewriter).  When I was
done with solid copy, I would have read what I had typed because I had
no idea.  It was like "I" was passive...I was just the shell for my
brain-to-finger connection.  I called it ZOMBIE COPY.  Very Weird.

After a year, I decided to stop that nonsense and go back to
copying...in my head, which meant relearning again.  Now I hear words
again (well, for the last couple decades)...that's a lot better for
hamming.

de Doug KR2Q