Subj : Re: Storage To : Mike Luther From : Holger Granholm Date : Thu Jun 26 2014 11:37 am In a message dated 06-25-14, Mike Luther said to Holger Granholm: ML> I've mentioned this before but I'll do it again. Hi Mike, HG> I admit that I have lost at least the paragraph copying because of not HG> having trained that in a long time but it will come back with training. ML> Getting faster and faster at it, at least for me when I got my first ML> ham license as WN5WQN in 1952, was VERY easy ...... ML> Our whole family is hugely musically oriented. I'd learned Morse ML> Code from 78RPM records mu Uncle Billy sent me from Erie, Yes it helps very much if you have a musically minded brain. ML> seven years old. It hit me. The steam loco whistle dah dah dit dah ML> for crossing a road from the engineer was the letter "Q" and dit dit ML> was to start forward was the letter "I" and dit dit dit was the ML> letter "S". The musical sound of a CQ is among the first letter combination you learn. There are however several different learning methods based on different theories. I'm not shure any more but IRC the course I started before being called in to military duty started with the EISH5 letters. ML> POOF! I started converting all the traffic street sign letters to ML> Morse Code as I drove along to practice going Morse Code faster and ML> faster! Then I began doing that for all kinds of signs while I was ML> driving! My Dad was FURIOUS when he discovered I actually could get ML> my Model A Ford to go 75MPH with it's 21 inch wheels! And after ML> several months of this trick I was was WAY over 25 or 30 WPM at what ML> I could do on CW. I never did that but learned by listening. When I got up to speed I built a single paddle electronic keyer to keep the fatique away. ML> Later on, I could use a keyboard to get to 50-60 WPM on the air, but ML> also with my complete computer controlled entire station operations I have never actually used a keyboard for sending even though I built one from a QST article to be used with my Sinclair ZX-81 computer but that one was succeeded by a CP/M computer and I never made another attempt to redesign or construct another keyboard. 73 de Sam, OH0NC aka Holger ___ * MR/2 2.30 * This OS/2 system uptime is 643 days 19:41 hours (en). --- PCBoard (R) v15.22 (OS/2) 2 * Origin: Coming to you from the Sunny Aland Islands. (2:20/228) .