[Elecraft] Re: CW Recognition

[Bob]

Doug,

I'm glad someone else confirms the weird mental state (I like your
description as Zombie Copy) and yes I am trying to keep this related to
Elecraft so now back to the KXB3080 module build.

Bob

WA4MQW
 

--- DOUGLAS ZWIEBEL <dougzzz at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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



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