IIRC, we were pre-sorted by an aptitude test in boot camp before assignment, so if you went to that training, you'd already shown some ability to copy. Me, when I took that test, I lost badly. I did get a Novice while in AT school, and many years later sweated blood to get up to 13WPM for HF privileges. And I'm useless at CW.
I was honorman in my AT classes, and later, when a bunch of us, including the shop CPO, studied for the FCC exams, I was the one who explained much to others, and walked away from the tests with a 1st Radiotelephone. 73, doug ATN2 1965-9 Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 20:11:44 -0400 From: "DAVID LEDUC" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I was a radioman in the Navy back in the late 60's. We copied 5 character groups so there was very little comprehension. I was totally immersed in CW during radioman school and at the end of 6 months could copy 26 WPM. I was the top man in the class but got beat out for first place by a WAVE. I wish that I could remember the method that they used to teach code. Most of the people in the class learned to copy code so it did work. I went almost 30 years without copying a single "dit" when I got back into the hobby. It took me a month to get back up to 20+ wpm. Dave N1IX _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [email protected] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
