[Elecraft] [OT] increasing CW copy speed: practice slow -v- practice fast

[Kevin Stover]

I've always thought the Farnsworth method was directly responsible for 
the "10 wpm wall" newcomers were running into. Reading "The Art and 
Skill of Radio Telegraphy" Pierpont says the same thing. By stretching 
the time between words you give people more time to translate. if your 
going to copy Morse faster than about 10wpm you don't have time to 
translate. You have to know the character as soon as you hear it without 
using the look up table in your head. The Koch method has no exaggerated 
spacing between words or elements. You want to be proficient at 35 wpm, 
you practice with dit/dah and word speed set for 35 wpm.

Building speed on the air is great as long as the code you are copying 
is "good" code meaning close to properly spaced and timed code. The nice 
thing about the computer programs is they send perfect code. With G4FON 
you can make it more realistic by adding QRM, QRN and QSB in varying 
levels. The only thing your missing is an old timer on his bug sending 
with the "Lake Erie Swing".

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R. Kevin Stover
AC0H
ARRL
FISTS #11993
SKCC #215
NAQCC #3441


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