K=D8HB wrote:
In light of the likelyhood that all US Amateur Radio testing may soon bec=
ome
code-free, this 16-year-old article from WA6ITF has new applicability.

GEARVAKf Research Basis of No-Code Tape
---------------------------------------

Hans, perhaps now amateurs can learn Morse Code without having
unnecessary distraction/hurdles to jump through like the 5WPM, 13WPM,
or 20WPM barriers.

How long will it take the code teachers and code advocates to catch on
to the concept, or will they coninue on with the stepped hoops?

"b.b." wrote

How long will it take the code teachers and
code advocates to catch on to the concept,
or will they coninue on with the stepped hoops?

"Stepped hoops"? In my experience, people tend to learn Morse not in steps, but
by gradual increases. Granted that there are some "plateaus" (approximately
10WPM and 25WPM) but these are found to be related to the "mental mechanics" of
learning.

Up to about 10WPM trainees can still "count the dits", so moving beyond that
speed requires them to learn to recognize the "sound of the character" without
deliberate "counting the dits". This is what makes the Farnsworth training
method effective, in that the trainee is early acquainted to the "sound of the
character" at the higher speeds.

The 25WPM plateau seems related to sublimating copying to a "middle conscious"
level, where the characters flow at an almost sub-conscious level from the ear
to the fingertip without active thought about the actual characters heard.

73, de Hans, K0HB

K=D8HB wrote:
"b.b." wrote

How long will it take the code teachers and
code advocates to catch on to the concept,
or will they coninue on with the stepped hoops?

"Stepped hoops"? In my experience, people tend to learn Morse not in ste=
ps, but
by gradual increases. Granted that there are some "plateaus" (approximat=
ely
10WPM and 25WPM) but these are found to be related to the "mental mechani=
cs" of
learning.

Up to about 10WPM trainees can still "count the dits", so moving beyond t=
hat
speed requires them to learn to recognize the "sound of the character" wi=
thout
deliberate "counting the dits". This is what makes the Farnsworth traini=
ng
method effective, in that the trainee is early acquainted to the "sound o=
f the
character" at the higher speeds.

The 25WPM plateau seems related to sublimating copying to a "middle consc=
ious"
level, where the characters flow at an almost sub-conscious level from th=
e ear
to the fingertip without active thought about the actual characters heard.

73, de Hans, K0HB

Like I said...

Maybe Morse can go back to being an encoding scheme, and Farnsworth can
go back to being a teaching method. And maybe without artificial
testing steps, Morse can develop more along the lines human learning
and consciousness.

b.b.:

The internet is wonderful. I just completed an exhaustive search and located
that CW training tape in question, I downloaded it in .mp3 format and listened
to it.

Don't bother with getting it yourself, when I played it, all it said was, "Grab
a BEEG RADIO (cb & leen-e-air) and go to it, if you want to have fun.

Then it asked for a "donation" to be sent to the arrl for the tape!

There was also a disgusting ad on the tape (the background sounded like it had
been recorded at a flea market), some old ham trying to sell bicycle seats
which had only been sniffed one time before!

Keep your money!

John

"b.b." wrote in message
oups.com...

KØHB wrote:
"b.b." wrote

How long will it take the code teachers and
code advocates to catch on to the concept,
or will they coninue on with the stepped hoops?

"Stepped hoops"? In my experience, people tend to learn Morse not in steps,
but
by gradual increases. Granted that there are some "plateaus" (approximately
10WPM and 25WPM) but these are found to be related to the "mental mechanics"
of
learning.

Up to about 10WPM trainees can still "count the dits", so moving beyond that
speed requires them to learn to recognize the "sound of the character"
without
deliberate "counting the dits". This is what makes the Farnsworth training
method effective, in that the trainee is early acquainted to the "sound of
the
character" at the higher speeds.

The 25WPM plateau seems related to sublimating copying to a "middle
conscious"
level, where the characters flow at an almost sub-conscious level from the
ear
to the fingertip without active thought about the actual characters heard.

73, de Hans, K0HB

Like I said...

Maybe Morse can go back to being an encoding scheme, and Farnsworth can
go back to being a teaching method. And maybe without artificial
testing steps, Morse can develop more along the lines human learning
and consciousness.

"b.b." wrote

Maybe Morse can go back to being an encoding scheme, and Farnsworth
can go back to being a teaching method.

Thus it is, thus it always has been.... I don't understand "go back to"....

73, de Hans, K0HB

K=D8HB wrote:
"b.b." wrote

Maybe Morse can go back to being an encoding scheme, and Farnsworth
can go back to being a teaching method.

Thus it is, thus it always has been.... I don't understand "go back to"..=
..=2E

73, de Hans, K0HB

Morse had become merely a licensing hurdle, Farnsworth a testing
scheme. Now if anyone bothers to learn Morse, it will be to use it.

"b.b." wrote in message
oups.com...

KØHB wrote:
"b.b." wrote

Maybe Morse can go back to being an encoding scheme, and Farnsworth
can go back to being a teaching method.

Thus it is, thus it always has been.... I don't understand "go back
to"....

73, de Hans, K0HB

Morse had become merely a licensing hurdle, Farnsworth a testing
scheme. Now if anyone bothers to learn Morse, it will be to use it.


You know something? Your probably right....and actually that is a good
thing.

Dan/W4NTI

Dan/W4NTI wrote:
"b.b." wrote in message
oups.com...

K=D8HB wrote:
"b.b." wrote

Maybe Morse can go back to being an encoding scheme, and Farnsworth
can go back to being a teaching method.

Thus it is, thus it always has been.... I don't understand "go back
to"....

73, de Hans, K0HB

Morse had become merely a licensing hurdle, Farnsworth a testing
scheme. Now if anyone bothers to learn Morse, it will be to use it.

You know something? Your probably right....and actually that is a good
thing.

Dan/W4NTI

People may not always agree with my opinions, but that's OK with me.

There were plenty of Code Tape Extra's out there who never worked a dit
in their lives.

"KØHB" wrote in message
nk.net...

The 25WPM plateau seems related to sublimating copying to a "middle
conscious" level, where the characters flow at an almost sub-conscious
level from the ear to the fingertip without active thought about the
actual characters heard.

73, de Hans, K0HB

Sigh, I hope to get to this level eventually. I'm at the point where I'm
just starting to "hear" words like tnx, abt, the, fer, qsl, qsb, name, op,
rst, etc. rather than spelling them in my head.

--
Vy 73 de Bert
WA2SI
FISTS #9384/CC #1736
QRP ARCI #11782

Bert casually remarked at the "self-improvment session", "I'm at the point
where I'm
just starting to "hear" words..."

My gawd man, we are making progress.

The first step is always the hardest--admitting you have a problem.

For right now, we have some meds to stop the voices, while we work on that
little problem.

John

"Bert Craig" wrote in message
...
"KXHB" wrote in message
nk.net...

The 25WPM plateau seems related to sublimating copying to a "middle
conscious" level, where the characters flow at an almost sub-conscious level
from the ear to the fingertip without active thought about the actual
characters heard.

73, de Hans, K0HB

Sigh, I hope to get to this level eventually. I'm at the point where I'm just
starting to "hear" words like tnx, abt, the, fer, qsl, qsb, name, op, rst,
etc. rather than spelling them in my head.

--
Vy 73 de Bert
WA2SI
FISTS #9384/CC #1736
QRP ARCI #11782