[Fists] The secret of learning code

Wed, 07 May 2003 15:17:40 -0400

I learned code from scratch and I now teach it to whomever will listen.

The hardest thing for me to understand about the process of learning the 
code is the human instinct to resist learning it! My best guess is that it 
is difficult because it is so foreign compared to things we have learned in 
the past. It is a learned association with sounds completely devoid from 
what we are accustomed to.

The bottom line is simple: It takes a lot of work and passionate commitment 
to learn the language fluently. You need to practice like you practice to 
learn the piano or be a good ball player. You can't memorize questions, take 
the test, and know it forever. As Yoda says: (paraphrasing) There is 'do' 
and there is 'don't'. There is no 'try'.

Its really hard work, but if you do the time, you will shine. It's as simple 
as that.
It is primitive and elegant. It does the job.
When was the last time you worked the world on 2 watts via SSB?

Just keep practicing in any way you are comfortable with!

Good luck and don't give up! Karl Zuk N2KZ

>From: "Chris Redding" <[email protected]>
>To: <[email protected]>
>Subject: Re: [Fists] out loud spelling program
>Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 19:42:10 +0100
>
>I know everybody is different, but I'm not sure that these 'fast letters'
>are the best way.
>I found that once I (eventually!) started to get the hang of morse, it held
>me back to 'hear' the letters in my mind. To progress further I had to 
>reach
>inside my head and try to 'switch off' that little voice that was saying 
>the
>letters, and sort of 'feel' them silently instead. I'm sorry if this sounds
>a bit 'wierd' but I wonder how many other telegraphists who are maybe a bit
>further along the road agree...or is it just me?.  Nowadays I just relax 
>and
>read the morse in my head. If someone sends a word (other than a long one) 
>I
>don't actually 'hear' the word in my head, any more than I do when reading 
>a
>book. I don't try to read every letter, and if I miss one, the word just
>sort of reassembles itself in my head. But like I say, maybe it's just me.
>
>Good luck and best wishes,
>Chris G4PDJ
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Will" <[email protected]>
>To: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
>Sent: Monday, May 05, 2003 7:27 PM
>Subject: Re: [Fists] out loud spelling program
>
>
>I don't know of any such "high tech" methods, but if I don't miss the mark
>completely, I would think that you could read a bunch of text, letter by
>letter, character by character, into a tape recorder, and play this back
>
>
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