[Elecraft] Johnson SpeedX printed Morse

[KENT TRIMBLE]

Well, not exactly the /worst/ thing you could have used, but you're 
right, visualizing a chart is adding an extra step in the learning 
process toward aural copying.

And Wes is also correct.  A whole generation or two of amateur radio 
operators had nothing at hand but charts printed in the Boy Scout 
Handbook and Signalling Merit Badge booklet.  However, no one told us it 
was the wrong way to go.  Those charts got many of us a Novice license 
in addition to Merit Badges.  Later, I studied from Ameco vinyl records 
which got me a 13 wpm General.  Nightly work on the National Traffic 
System got me a 20 wpm Extra.

The bottom line is that many of those Scouts who learned by charts are 
today's 30 wpm and higher operators.

W4RK and I have taught code classes every Saturday morning (sometimes 
three) for many years.  We do not allow charts in class.  What students 
use at home is anybody's guess.  But with today's online Morse programs 
there is no reason to complicate (and slow) the learning process by 
consulting a printed chart.

73,

Kent  K9ZTV


On 12/27/2019 7:00 AM, Charlie T wrote:
> OH, yeah.....I can see it in front of me now, a little Johnson SpeedX Morse Code chart.
> WORST thing I could possibly have used........YUGE plateau at 7 WPM !
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> 73, Charlie k3ICH
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> Please don't let him learn code by sight.  I taught myself from the list in my Boy Scout Handbook (still have it)  and I've never overcome doing it the wrong way. Passed a 20 WPM Extra exam but it was a struggle.  Still my favorite mode though.
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