-> Also, a little bitty note. If anyone of this group has the code
-> memorized as a series of those funny characters, you are in serious
-> trouble. You have to get the ARRL code tapes and start over. You
-> code speed is not going anywhere until you unlearn the visual
-> translation and overhead associated with same. I think the ARRL
-> should remove any such notation from the Handbook or anywhere else in
-> print. IMHO.
I agree! When I first got interested in ham radio (not so very long
ago) one of the first things I did was find a small visual chart of all
the characters and tape it to my calculator at work. Memorized them
suckers....but that added a "translation speedbreaker". Increasing my
speed was murder after learning by "sight"! I think I've pretty well
got patch the hurdle now, but from time to time I can still tell that
the "visual way" is slowing me down. A very bad "unlearning" process!
72/73
Ed Welch KF4KRV
NorCal Member #???
1st Grand Poobah ScQRPion of Alabama
QRP-L #873 - FISTS #2964
Luverne, Alabama
Crenshaw County - Grid EM61
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