[Elecraft] Farnsworth Method

[Romanchik Dan]

I'm glad to hear someone say this. I can copy at least 30 wpm now,  
and I rarely hear words. I suppose I do hear some of the more common  
ones, such as "FER" or "THE", but for everything else it's still  
letter-by-letter for me, too.

I'd also like to echo the comment someone else made about head copy  
being "satisfying." That's the way I feel about it, too. Being able  
to do this makes working CW so much less of a task and so much more  
enjoyable.

73!

Dan KB6NU
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On Mar 25, 2008, at Mar 25, 11:10 PM, Ron D'Eau Claire wrote:
> I never learned to hear "words". I ran my speed up to 35 WPM,  
> copying on a
> mechanical typewriter, and decided it wasn't fun going any faster.  
> To this
> day, copying in my head while puttering around the shack, I still copy
> letters, not words, so that's why I didn't add think about the  
> third step.
>
> And, I submit, hearing "words" is a relatively recent phenomena for  
> most
> operators since, until recently, copying CW meant accurately  
> copying each
> character onto paper was needed for message handling. The  
> characters might
> be plain text, numbers or code groups.
>
> I made the transition from paper or mill copy as you describe: by not
> copying every letter but only the key stuff. Pretty soon I wasn't  
> writing
> anything at all and just listening.
>
> But it's still letter-by-letter for me.
>
> Ron AC7AC