For anyone who is interested in learning CW, Russ Farnsworth developed
a teaching method that is still in use even by the computer programs
that teach cw today.
He was also a blind ham.
I never met him, but I did meet his friend Dave Rutlidge. I believe I
remember Dave saying that he and Russ were roommates at the Illinois
School for the Blind.
Now, here is your chance to download a bit of ham radio history.
K5XU
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From: "Robert M. Kimbrell" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2010 9:16 PM
Subject: [QRP-L] The Real Russ Farnsworth
All this talk about learning Morse Code caused me to make a trip to my
basement to dig out the original Russ Farnsworth LP's from 1959. I
digitized the audio and made highly compressed mp3 files (88/1) and
they
still sound pretty good although Russ is a little bassy but perfectly
understandable. You can get them here:
http://kimbrell.freeshell.org/farnsworth.html
and you can read about other famous people who used this method here:
http://n1su.com/c31.htm
I have also made full fidelity CD's for the car or home CD player. I
think they are good for anybody just starting out because Russ is very
interactive with the listener. I'm sure he was a great Elmer - very
encouraging to the student. I haven't been very successful at finding
much information about Mr. Farnsworth which is strange because people
have
been referring to the "Farnsworth Method" for over 50 years!
Enjoy!
72/73 DE W0AO (Formerly W7KU) Bob
Bob Kimbrell W0AO Kansas City, MO
[log in to unmask]http://kimbrell.freeshell.org/
SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
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