April 30, 2025. Chris Rutkowski, author of the Amazon best-seller, The CW Way of Life, today published the second of his three-part Keymanship lecture series on YouTube. Keymanship 102 - The Perception and Experience of Morse, is available for viewing now at: . Part 2 explores the Code-Brain connection. That is, it shows how external vibrations become internal meaning, and how meaning gets “shredded” back into external vibrations (the code) for others to experience. The result is a model, "The Morse Cycle," linking speed and perception in a cycle of vibrational inflow and outflow, with you in the middle. Morse learning plateaus and mitigation strategies are dissected and explained. Said Chris: "Students need this to make better self-determined choices about their training path. Teachers need this, not for themselves, but to guide students. And Lovers of Morse - well, we don't need a reason." For more information, contact info@morsebusters.com. Chris is good in QRZ. Part 1, The Beat and Rhythms of Morse, explores the connection between the code and the key and is available on the MorseBusters YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/@morsebusters.
Yah OB! After being WAY INTO CW I've achieved the ultimate plateau of CW copy whereby I'm able to actually visually (mentally) to scroll the word/characters sort of like a electronic cw decoder! The human brain is a MARVELIOUS DEVICE! I was @ 40wpm, but now I'm @ 30wpm having had turned 78yrs. old back in April!!! CW is obviously our favorite MODE!!! Jim-ee
Chris, It's me again! I'm really sorry to see that the thread that you created here was almost completely IGNORED by our brethren!!! Hmmmmm? I guess that it was too IN-DEPTH in reasoning for others to understand ! OH WELL! My "Calling All Dxers" thread post ended up with about 10 other pages of comments. I was more than happy with those results!!! Anyway I did enjoy your dissertation immensely! Thanks es 73, Jim-ee
Typing also becomes subliminal if you learn young and do it all the time. I learned to type in 6th grade (typing class, led by a marvelous teacher) and graduated that class at a lowly 30 wpm on a manual typewriter with unlabeled keys. But I kept typing and typing all through school and college and thereafter and now at age 74 can still type 100 wpm. I never look at the keys, just need to feel the little bumps on the F and J and then I know where the whole keyboard is...thoughts go to paper without thinking about how that happens. Code is kinda like that. I learned at age 12-13, got my Novice ticket at 13 and used only CW for about 10 months before I upgraded; but after upgrading and enjoying AM then SSB a bit, I still kept using CW and over the years simply preferred it. Not because it's easier than talking, but it's quieter and using headphones I could be making contacts with everything set up anywhere, right next to people doing other things, and they'd never know I was on the air making contacts. Now licensed 60 years, I still prefer CW. It's just more relaxing and doesn't require much of the operator other than to listen and then move two fingers. Easy to do in a dark room, no computers, no monitors, no speakers...
