[SOC] getting it

[Paul Bartlett]

Hi Lloyd,

Thanks for the feedback. I think I know what you mean: It's the *shape* of
the sound that's important; if you try to analyse it, you're lost.

I'm getting on well with codequick.

Paul :-)

p.s. Nobody's given me a clue on "73's" yet...;-)

P

----- Original Message -----
From: "Lloyd Lachow" <llachow@yahoo.com>
To: <soc@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, December 16, 2002 9:41 PM
Subject: [SOC] getting it


> Paul,
>
>    All seriousness aside, I am a lover of CW, and
> encourage you in your task. For some reason, it's more
> fun than seems appropriate.
>
>    If you're not learning the letters at a good clip
> per letter, such as 13-15 wpm, you may find that, like
> most, you would need to relearn the code after getting
> up to about 10 wpm. Some say, and I agree, that the
> way most of us learned was to have a sort of "look-up
> table" in our heads, where we looked up each letter (
> dididit = three dots = s), which only works to about
> 10 wpm. Then, we have to make the transition to
> hearing the code for each letter as if someone is
> saying the letter to us (dididit = s).
>
>    G4FON has the Koch trainer, free quick download, on
> his site, and with it, you begin with 15 wpm letters,
> just a couple at a time, adding another when you learn
> them. It has other features, too, but with the basic
> alphabet, when you get to where you know all the
> characters (40 available,) you know them at a
> per-letter speed of 15, so you recognize them more by
> the sound of the entire letter, rather than its
> constituent dits and dahs. Of course, you can do this
> at 3 wpm, at first, and gradually increase.
>
>   It's great to get to 20-25 wpm, because there's a
> world of fun out there...if you like that sort of
> thing.
>
>
>
> =====
> 73, 72 es oo, Lloyd, K3ESE
>   K1 # 00379 - 20/40M Rock-Mites - Hunk o' Wahr
>       ARRL - ARS #1301 - FISTS #8774
>           FPqrp #476 - QRParci #11147
>              QRP-L #2415 - SOC #530
>                  HGT #6'1 - Wgt #190 - BT #B-
>                          dit  dididit  dit
>
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