[Elecraft] On CW

[Buck]

The secret is in the way you approach it.  Method today is to learn the 
sound of a letter.  A is not dot dash or dit dah.  It is not Ah Pull. It 
is not ._    It is the sound of didah.  You repeat each letter until you 
have it down and move to the next one. This is called the Koch method.

The letters are sent at 20 wpm to reinforce they are one sound.  Code is 
sent slower by expanding the space between letters.  This is called 
Farnsworth method.

Here's a free trainer program  http://www.g4fon.net/

Buck, k4ia
Honor Roll
8BDXCC
EasyWayHamBooks.com

On 10/31/2017 2:26 PM, rkruse at johngalt.biz wrote:
> 
> On 10/31/2017 2:02 PM, engineercm wrote:
>> Thank you so much for articulating the magic about CW.
> 
> As a teen I tried to learn Morse Code and never was able to get very 
> far.  With Morse as a condition for getting a license, I never thought 
> about getting a Ham License although I was very heavy into electronics 
> and got my First Class Radiotelephone License.  (To show my age, the 
> testing only had one transistor question; all the rest were tubes.)
> 
> When I discovered that Morse Code had been removed as a requirement 
> (2014 or so) I began studying for my tests and made Extra within a few 
> months.
> 
> I have  K3S that I am about to put on the air, on SSB to begin because 
> that is what I currently understand.
> 
> I have had CW recommended, but am unwilling to repeat the head banging 
> experience I went through 50+ years ago.
> 
> Now that I've given the history, my question to those of you who are 
> gung-ho on CW is; how did you begin the learning process?  Is there some 
> secret that I missed?
> 
> 73
> 
> Ray
> KK4WPB
> 
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