Originally Posted by
ricardian
At Cosford we were sent Morse at 21 wpm but with huge gaps between characters, as we became more proficient the gaps became shorter. I think we learned the shorter characters first - E, T, A, N and finally the figures with a few bits of punctuation (full stop, brackets on/off, hyphen, quote, unquote)
Ric, the PWFY etc was the circa '63 Pattern Recognition Technique (PRT) method used to get us up to 24wpm.
It's a long time ago now, the other pattern groups have long since faded, but it's amazing what still pops up from time to time.
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