I've always thought the Farnsworth method was directly responsible for
the "10 wpm wall" newcomers were running into. Reading "The Art and
Skill of Radio Telegraphy" Pierpont says the same thing. By stretching
the time between words you give people more time to translate. if your
going to copy Morse faster than about 10wpm you don't have time to
translate. You have to know the character as soon as you hear it without
using the look up table in your head. The Koch method has no exaggerated
spacing between words or elements. You want to be proficient at 35 wpm,
you practice with dit/dah and word speed set for 35 wpm.
Building speed on the air is great as long as the code you are copying
is "good" code meaning close to properly spaced and timed code. The nice
thing about the computer programs is they send perfect code. With G4FON
you can make it more realistic by adding QRM, QRN and QSB in varying
levels. The only thing your missing is an old timer on his bug sending
with the "Lake Erie Swing".
--
R. Kevin Stover
AC0H
ARRL
FISTS #11993
SKCC #215
NAQCC #3441
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