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I'm strugling on lesson 19, very frustrating. Any suggestions?
Regards,
Jan

Dag Jan,

Probeer een tijdje Morse machine op deze website.
Ik weet zeker dat dat zal helpen.

Meld je aan op user group nonagenarians, ik zal je helpen.

hi Jan

If you go back and try lesson 15 again - are you stuck there also now? or is that OK still?

cb

Keep calm and carry on. Don't go back. Avoid cutting corners. Learning is a b*tch!

cb is right. His promoted method is called the battering ram method.

Very effective.

Actually I was just wondering if Jan had been moving on exercises before it all had sunk in properly,
and had stalled due to short term memory fading out . . .

Each successive exercise should take longer due to the dilution of the new character in the combined mass of previous characters
unless
you compensate become better at learning in addition to picking up more characters - due to your ears becoming better tuned in to morse, or some such; a process which is probably part of what we call aptitude - following the military categorisation of their morse trainee candidates . .

If you are stuck on one char - that is one thing. If you somehow forgot all of them - then you have extra time to put in all over . .


Anyway - this is the persistence group forum - so keep going everyone and don't give up ! You will get there.


Of course there is no point in not making any progress else soon you will be fed up - followed by give-up, like probably 90% of hopefulls who read somewhere that cw is easy . .

So if you stall you have to work out why - is it just that single char or what ?


YMMV of course

cb

Get a dog. Download the mp3 files. Listen to them over and over while walking the dog. Mutter the letter you hear as you go along. You may get better through the constant practice, as well as exhausting your dog and getting a reputation as the local loonie. Works for me.

Yup - listen to lots of morse - and repeat - if you can't hear it you cant decode it.

It's like the old way nonag had to do it before we all got records and tapes and training programs - but now you can use your cellphone instead of listening on the air.

Might be a bit annoying if the dog ends up better than you though . .

Ham Morse by Simon Twigger, AA9PW (on iPhone) is my favorite training app. It works both when walking the dog or with the wife in the shopping center :-)

For user created WAV/MP3 from any txt file (from a word to an entire book) with user chosen speeds, tone, timing (standard PARIS, Farnsworth, Wordsworth), a feature for Instant Word Recognition (IWR) training, word suffixes, etc. see
qsl.net/wa2nfn/txt2cw.

Note: for Windows users. You will also need PERL (many PCs have it already), 1 addition Per Module takes 30 seconds to download.

Enjoy
73

Repeat, repeat. There's no good way. When you get to it, it's all done.

Hi Jan,

I have two suggestions:

(1) Increase your current speed. You will miss a lot, that is not the point. The point is to get your brain "primed" for a faster speed. After 10 minutes of the faster speed when you return your current speed you will do much better.

(2) Stop anticipating characters. This is my problem. Relax and listen to the whole character before you engage your brain to decode. That will get your brain less anxious and used to decoding sounds rather than individual dits/dahs.

Hope this helps. 73.

OM, when using “battering ram” method, it is best for the brain to take time off. You will see that when you return, new peaks from low valleys will be the correct path of course. GL

Alternatively increase the word spacing and force yourself to listen to the entire group of 5 characters before typing them out. Also check the results page to see where you are making the most mistakes.
Learning CW isn't easy