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Dear A1CLUB members,

I just posted about HEAD COPY to Long Island CW club reflector and I would like to hear from you, too.

Any new or variational methods of HEAD COPY that you tried or you are trying?

Followings are what I'm working on and I will try the Phonic Copy soon.

1. Letter Copy
Convert Morse codes into letters one by one and then construnct words to understand.
Good for QRS to QRQ but hard when over 30WPM. Word prediction will enhance this skill.

2. Sound Copy
Temporarily memorise dits dahs and then convert into letters and words.
Good for randam letters such as call signs and encrypted reception. Relatively no missing letters.

3. Word Copy
Match continuous sound of Morse codes directly to words to understand.
Good for QRQ especially over 30WPM but hard to memorize many words. Less brain over-heating.

I'm using all above methods occasonally, Letter Copy is my main method, Sound Copy is to copy QRQ call signs in contests, Word Copy for myself is a kind of byproduct of Letter Copy in QSOs.

I suppose DF7TV, Tom san is working on the progressed Word Copy at HST such as 35WPM and more.

Some people say that Sound Copy is mostly effective for HAND COPY (writting letters or PC keying). So good for CW exam which requires to write codes on papers.

If you do more or another on HEAD COPY, please share your thoughts with us.

73,
// HIRO, JJ1FXF

I'm still just a beginner, but the CW Academy course I'm taking is focusing on Head Copy using drills to keep and hold longer sequences of characters before writing/typing them out. Rather than letter-by-letter decoding you force the brain to try to retain what is heard. I'm amazed at how the brain can start interpreting these sequences subconsciously. This may be common sense to experienced operators, but learning head copy has been a fascinating experience for me.

Reading the linked article, I think one would need to already be quite proficient at letter-copy before they could undertake phonic-copy.

Bill-san,

Thank you always for calling me at AWT. :)

The method by the CW Academy of the CWops is “Sound Copy” in my naming.

“Sound Copy” is very effective at earlier stage of mastering HEAD COPY as I experienced.

However, if a longer spelling word comes, my “Sound Copy” takes longer decoding time and then missing the next word beginning.

So I started letter-by-letter decoding in my head that I call is “Letter Copy”.

Actually my “Letter Copy” does some multi letter copy such as “ER” of “EVER” and intermittently switching to “Word Copy” such as “BEEN” and other often heard words.

What I understand here is time-shorter letters such as “E” and “I” tend to tern my “Letter Copy” to “Multi Letter Copy” and “Word Copy”.

My “Letter Copy” doesn’t work well at slower 15WPM and faster than 20WPM by different reasons.

Slower “Letter Copy” may lose decoded letters in the brain and at faster “Letter Copy” decode cannot catch up to the speed.

Both issues are caused by the performance of so called Working Memory of the brain, I suppose.

Working Memory retains usually 5 +/- 2 items and only for a few seconds but works with some other tasks like Morse code decoding.

It is said that Working Memory degrades when aged like 50yo and this degrade may cause ADHD or dementia.

I hope my HEAD COPY training may avoid those brain disease. hihi

73,
// HIRO, JJ1FXF

Hi Hiro-san,

I am glad that the conditions have been good for the past few weeks so that I could hear the A1 Club members from Kanto on 40m during the AWT. I am almost ready to deploy my WWR Carbon Rod antenna so that I can hopefully participate on 80m and 160m as well (Thanks to your advice.)

I think the CW Academy instructor I have now (K5GQ) is doing something that may combine Letter Copy and Sound Copy. However, you are right that it focuses more on Sound Copy.

I wonder if it's more difficult for non-native English speakers to learn the words in CW. A native English speaker might recognize a longer word pattern easier than someone who was using English as a second language. That additional challenge might be difficult.

Hello Hiro-san and hello Bill-san,

if you look at a sentence in English, there will be short words (like "could") and longer ones (like "environmentally").

I think that "could", with a bit of training, will be recognized by the so-called Instant Word Recognition (IWR).

I do not think that even a native English speaker will copy "environmentally" by IWR. With those longer words further
"methods" come into play. It is copying by building-up the word out of syllables, phonics (..or whatever you like to call it)
in your mind. Just in the way children learn to speak out words.

But the good news is that this happens automatically because your brain will organize its work in the most effcient way.
...and that's especially true for the "work" you provide to it on a DAILY basis -- like doing up the shoelaces and CW exercises :) :)


GL
CU 73
Tom DF7TV

Tom-san,

Good to see you here again and thanks for sharing your experience of learning HEAD COPY.

So English speakers can copy Morse code by the unit of syllabus and it turns the longer spelling words to shorter syllabus words in some sense.

I’ll keep this in my mind hoping my brain do some magic on HEAD COPY someday. :)

73,
// HIRO, JJ1FXF

Hello again Hiro-san,

Yes - that will happen (...the magic).

I do not know where you are on your CW journey.
I think the toughest part is to get to 25 wpm and to throw away all pencils.

From 25 wpm upwards -- easy going ?

CU 73
Tom

Copy es tx can be summed up on these graphs:
Sending:

Receiving:


Just my long time opinion, b4 the CWops and LICWC info, along wid other CW info on:



I hve these in spreadsheets, so can tweak the values, if you disagree with them......
73, Paul. EI6LC, VP9KF, G4BKI.