clvrmnky wrote:
I figure I'll learn to read by listening in on the beginner frequencies
out there. I've read some stern warnings about touching a key until I
can read relatively accurately. Well, I can pick out "CQ" as of yesterday.
That's a start indeed.
Other letters have distinctive patterns that can be associated with
words or phrases: "Here comes the bride" for "Q", "Aladdin's lamp"
for "L", and so on.
You might want to build or buy a code practice oscillator. You'll want
a key eventually, of some sort, and a straight key + CPO will let you
develop the muscle-motion patterns for sending low-speed Morse.
After that, it's the old matter of how you get to Carnegie Hall:
"Practice, practice, practice".
I do have a bit of confusion about "Farnsworth" and friends, which I'm
slowly clearing up by reading some online refs.
I tend to think of Farnsworth-style Morse as fast letters in slow words.
--
Mike Andrews, KE5DMQ
Tired old sysadmin