Amen, Kent. Bill, KE5OG
On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 10:43 AM, KENT TRIMBLE <[email protected]> wrote: > I thoroughly agree with Kev about "getting on the air." > > I teach two and sometimes three Morse Code classes every Saturday > morning. The students all KNOW the code. They can accurately copy 10 WPM > and above, and can send quite decently. But no matter how much I > encourage, cajole, or "coddle," they resist my pleas to get "on the air" > for all kinds of reasons, but primarily two -- either no one comes back to > them or all they can find are speed demons who won't slow down. > > The worse thing the FCC ever did for amateur radio (in my opinion) was the > elimination of the non-renewable Novice license with the concomitant doing > away of the Novice sub-bands. Those were safe-harbors for neophytes to > find each other, work each other, and improve each other without feeling > intimidated. The non-renewable aspect served to motivate those who were > desirous of deeper involvement in communications, and to give a graceful > exit to those who weren't. > > All the computer programs and well-structured academies in-the-world are > simply no substitute for good old-fashioned one-on-one Morse Code work > between two eager and nervous operators. That's how you learn best and how > you learn quickest. And an even greater dividend is that you learn about > propagation, procedures, tuning skills, how receivers work, signal paths, > solar effects, antenna fundamentals, and a host of other things that can't > be learned on a laptop, no matter how well the application is executed or > the content designed. > > 73, > > Kent K9ZTV > > > > On 6/12/2017 9:43 AM, Scott Manthe wrote: > >> How in the world is someone learning something in a way that most suits >> them "coddling?" People learn things differently, even Morse. Finding the >> way that best suits someone is not coddling them, it's helping them to >> learn efficiently. >> >> Scott N9AA >> >> >> On 6/12/17 8:18 AM, Kevin - K4VD wrote: >> >>> I learned code by memorizing 5 wpm and then getting on the air and >>> having >>> as many contacts as I could. Nothing fancy, no coddling. Just do it. >>> >>> 73, >>> Kev >>> >>> >> > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to [email protected] > -- Bill Brooks 432-244-8863 ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
