[Elecraft] Re: [K3] Text decode with straight key - OT now

[David Ferrington, M0XDF]

Hi Ron, I'd completely agree with that, having used G4FON's excellent  
Koch trainer to get started, I found copying my mentor's Morse a  
little difficult when I first started and he sends very good Morse on  
a S/K. But after a little while, I got better at it. I'm up to ~ 8 WPM  
with him now.
I need to listen a lot on the bands now and try to copy, so I'm not  
completely blown away by a different fist. Oh and I've taken on board  
something both he and someone else I spoke with in JOTA at the weekend  
have repeatedly said - just have Morse playing in the background, the  
brain absorbs it, in the same way we first absorb human speech when we  
are a baby.

Lastly, why am I saying Morse all the time and not CW? Because I feel  
CW has the connotation of transmitted Morse via carrier wave (a mode),  
were as Morse means the 'code', but maybe not transmitted, maybe  
played from a recording. - Feel free to correct me.

73 de M0XDF, K3 #174
-- 
I don't mind that you think slowly but I do mind that you are publishing
faster than you think.
-Wolfgang Pauli, physicist, Nobel laureate (1900-1958)

On 21 Oct 2008, at 04:04, Ron D'Eau Claire wrote:
> IMHO, if someone wants to be really proficient at reading Morse,  
> they need
> to practice, practice, practice reading a variety of not-so-perfect  
> manual
> fists. That's the next step beyond learning to copy machine-perfect  
> CW.