In a message dated 06-25-14, Mike Luther said to Holger Granholm:   
      
   ML> I've mentioned this before but I'll do it again.   
      
   Hi Mike,   
      
    HG> I admit that I have lost at least the paragraph copying because of not   
    HG> having trained that in a long time but it will come back with training.   
      
   ML> Getting faster and faster at it, at least for me when I got my first   
   ML> ham license as WN5WQN in 1952, was VERY easy ......   
      
   ML> Our whole family is hugely musically oriented.  I'd learned Morse   
   ML> Code from 78RPM records mu Uncle Billy sent me from Erie,   
      
   Yes it helps very much if you have a musically minded brain.   
      
   ML> seven years old. It hit me. The steam loco whistle dah dah dit dah   
   ML> for crossing a road from the engineer was the letter "Q" and dit dit   
   ML> was to start forward was the letter "I" and dit dit dit was the   
   ML> letter "S".   
      
   The musical sound of a CQ is among the first letter combination you   
   learn. There are however several different learning methods based on   
   different theories. I'm not shure any more but IRC the course I started   
   before being called in to military duty started with the EISH5 letters.   
      
   ML> POOF!  I started converting all the traffic street sign letters to   
   ML> Morse Code as I drove along to practice going Morse Code faster and   
   ML> faster! Then I began doing that for all kinds of signs while I was   
   ML> driving!  My Dad was FURIOUS when he discovered I actually could get   
   ML> my Model A Ford to go 75MPH with it's 21 inch wheels!  And after   
   ML> several months of this trick I was was WAY over 25 or 30 WPM at what   
   ML> I could do on CW.   
      
   I never did that but learned by listening. When I got up to speed I   
   built a single paddle electronic keyer to keep the fatique away.   
      
   ML> Later on, I could use a keyboard to get to 50-60 WPM on the air, but   
   ML> also with my complete computer controlled entire station operations   
      
   I have never actually used a keyboard for sending even though I built   
   one from a QST article to be used with my Sinclair ZX-81 computer but   
   that one was succeeded by a CP/M computer and I never made another   
   attempt to redesign or construct another keyboard.   
      
      
   73 de Sam, OH0NC   
      
   aka Holger   
      
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