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Originally Posted by Quietus
2) I am learning CW via CDs. Author of the course is real big on not translating, just writing in cursive with a smooth pen, what is heard. I was wondering if chiming along, repeating what's heard during the breaks using the leg key as the CDs are heard, is of any benefit for the near term. I realize that chiming along only helps out the learning of the fist, and does not help with the learning of CW characters. Is there any drawbacks to putting in another vector approach in learning CW?
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Your question is a little confusing to me. I'm not sure what you are meaning when you say translation. You should be writing the letters for the corresponding tones down. Cursive??? What the hell is that? Why would anyone try to figure out which letters are which? Military Block style printing in 5 letter groups with pencil is all you need. You can play whatever mind games you want to try and learn this stuff if you think that you can retain it, but if you can't copy clean code at whatever WPM group you are trying to attain, then you just need to listen to more code at and jack up the speeds until you can hit your goal.
I suggest listening to faster than the sped you need to attain......nothing crazy I.E. if you need 10GPM then I would listen to 15GPM at least. The faster you can hear it and copy clean the better off you will be when you try to send.
Hope this helps.
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