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
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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.