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From AD0WE's QRZ page, I found The Art and Skill of Radio-Telegraphy by N0HFF, which is the first Morse Code learning resource I've read that recommends a practice that I started doing naturally: vividly imagining morse as a learning technique. Sit quietly in a chair, close your eyes, relax, and imagine you are hearing each letter sound (just as you heard it), taking them one at a time, and immediately recognizing it or writing it down with a pencil. Make the picture as realistic and vivid as you can, even to imagining the "feeling" the pencil writing on the paper. Feel a sense of satisfaction of doing it right. Three to five minutes practice this way at any one time is probably enough. You can then repeat this kind of mental practice with each new group of characters as you learn them, and it will greatly strengthen the habit you are trying to build. I practice both sending and receiving code with vivid imagination. To this day, I have trouble with D/B and B/6, and I have improved by vividly imagining hearing them and speaking (rather than writing) them, but I do this practice with all symbols. I also vividly imagine sending. I'll use memorized text, and imagine sending the whole thing, down to imagining feeling the particular key I'm imagining that I'm using between my thumb and fingers. I have found this practice helpful. #HamRadio #MorseCode #CW