Tnx Drew! That's how I learned it too, about 10 years after those recordings were made.
It was reminiscent to hear them talk about "short sounds" and "long sounds" and not dots or dits and dashes and dahs. Many, many thousands of people entering military service who had never heard Morse learned it quickly in that way. I think it's important to note that none of those fellows were being trained for speed, but rather for accuracy. Sure, some of them were able to develop speeds well above 20 wpm over years of daily activity on the few circuits that permitted it, but for most the objective was easy, accurate copy at moderate speeds topping about at around 20 wpm, just as it is for majority of Hams today who still "pound brass". Since nearly all the code heard was sent by hand using a mechanical key, the ability to copy Morse that wasn't quite "perfect" (sometimes nowhere near perfect) was important as was the ability to send good Morse. Ron AC7AC -----Original Message----- I have no experience teaching Morse Code, but I did learn it very quickly from some old US Army Signal Corps records. I have uploaded these recordings to Internet Archive: <http://www.archive.org/details/U.S._Armed_Forces_Institute_Basic_Radio_Code _ca1942> They are quite primitive, but maybe someone will find them useful as I did. 73, Drew AF2Z ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
