EV>02-11-14 08:21 TOM WALKER wrote to ED VANCE about ARRL W1AW Code Practice   
      
   EV> TW> @MSGID: <52FAADCC.243.amtradio@capcity2.synchro.net>   
   EV> EV> * Originally in: Fido_HAM   
      
   EV> EV>I was reading Comments on QRZ.com and someone gave a URL where ARRL's   
   EV> EV>W1AW Code Practice of their MP3 Audio and ASCII Text files can be   
   EV> EV>Opened to listen to, or to read the text, OR Downloaded for later use.   
      
   EV> EV>There are files for 5WPM through 40WPM CW at this URL.   
      
   EV> EV>I first tried listening to the 25WPM MP3 file and found out I was Very   
   EV> EV>Rusty, so I listened to the 20WPM MP3 file and found out that I could   
   EV> EV>handle that a little better but not 100%.   
      
   EV> EV>I haven't been on the Air (CW , RTTY or Voice) for years but I've   
   EV> EV>always thought my CW Listening speed was around 20 to 25 WPM.   
      
   EV> EV>Boy was I Proved Wrong Today!!!!!   
      
   EV> EV>I just wanted to fess up!   
      
   EV> TW> That is stil something to be PROWD of.   
   EV> TW> Some, like me, NEVER had it compute in their Brain.   
      
   EV>Tom,   
      
   EV>I found a U.S. ARMY book in the Adult side of the Public Library in my   
   EV>neighborhood called "A MENOMIC DEVICE FOR MEMORIZING THE INTERNATIONAL   
   EV>MORSE CODE", and it helped me a lot to learn the sounds of the letters.   
      
   EV>I was allowed on the Adult Side because that was where the Record   
   EV>Player with Head Phones connected to it was and I was allowed to listen   
   EV>to Classical Music over there.   
      
   EV>When I saw the Morse Code Book was over in the Adult Section I asked   
   EV>if I could borrow it and the Librarian let me check it out.   
      
   EV>It did help me when my friend would sound off something in morse.   
      
   EV>That's what happened to me.   
      
   EV>You have talents I don't have and I've appreciated your sharing them   
   EV>(and things) with me.   
      
   EV>After I got my KN4ZIQ Novice ticket, on one Saturday several of us   
   EV>had Crystals around 3.720 Mc/s and we had a Rag Chew at Five WPM.   
   EV>The Rule was that no one was to BURN anyone out by sending too fast.   
   EV>I remember that day very well, as Tony the tiger would say:   
   EV>It was G-R-E-A-T!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   
      
   EV>73   dit dit   
      
   There several clever ways to develop the "Rythum" of CW.   
   Unfortunatly ones brain byst be capable. Mine is NOT. A cannot even   
   carry a tune is a Bucket and back in my early life I was a total failure   
   at trying to learn how to dance.   
   I gave up and moved onto other things that I could master.   
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