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ELMER OPERATOR WILL BE PRESENTED WITH RANDOM CHARACTERS CHARACTERS
AND NUMBERS OR LETTERS, NUMBERS, AND SPECIAL CHARACTERS.  WHICHEVER
COMBINATION YOU CHOOSE, THE CHARACTERS ARE SENT AT THE SPEED SET BY
THE OPERATOR IN THE SETTINGS MENU.  ADDITIONALLY, NOT ONLY ARE THE
CHARACTERS RANDOMLY GENERATED BASED ON THE OPERATORS SELECTION, BUT
THEY ARE ALSO GROUPED IN A COMBINATION OF THREE TO SEVEN CHARACTERS.
AT FIRST, I STRUGGLED WITH THIS, BUT OVER TIME I RECOGNIZED THAT
THIS TRA MENUS AND SETTINGS I DIDNT READ THE INSTRUCTION MANUAL AT
FIRST, BUT THE FIRST LINE ON THE SCREEN READ CW ELMER, AND THE
SECOND LINE FLASHED MULTIPLE OPTIONS.  EVERY 2 SECONDS, A NEW OPTION
APPEARED SETTINGS, SEND, RECEIVE, OR EXERCISES.  THERE IS A RED
BUTTON ON THE SIDE OF THE CW ELMER THAT HAS MULTIPLE USES, ONE OF
WHICH ACCESSES MENUS AND SUB MENUS SEE FIGURE 6.  IN HINDSIGHT, I
PROBABLY SHOULD HAVE ACCESSED THE SETTINGS MENU FIRST INSTEAD, I
ACCESSED THE RECEIVE MENU.  I REBOOTED THE DEVICE A FEW TIMES TO
MAKE CERTAIN WHAT I WAS HEARING WHEN THE CW ELMER SOUNDED OFF THE
INTRODUCTION OF CQ DE CW ELMER.  ULTIMATELY, AT THE SPEED AT WHICH
THE CW ELMER WAS SET, MY BRAIN WAS HAVING TROUBLE SEPARATING
SPACING, AND I COULDNT AUTOMATICALLY RECOGNIZE CERTAIN TONES.  I MAY
HAVE HEARD THE CW TONE FOR THE LETTER R, BUT I WAS UNCERTAIN THAT
THATS WHAT IT WAS, BECAUSE I WAS UNABLE TO HEAR THE DELAY BETWEEN
LETTERS.  I ACCESSED THE SEND MENU TO BEGIN PRACTICING.  HOWEVER,
THIS WAS ALSO WHEN I REALIZED JUST HOW POOR MY TIMING WAS AT THE
DEFAULT SPEED.  BEFORE GOING ANY FURTHER, I ACCESSED THE SETTINGS
MENU AND ADJUSTED THE SPEED.  THE DEFAULT SPEED TURNED OUT TO BE 15
WPM, WHICH I THOUGHT I WAS DOING REALLY WELL WITH, ESPECIALLY WHEN
SENDING.  I DO REMEMBER BEING TOLD TO SEND ONLY AS FAST AS I COULD
RECEIVE.  BECAUSE I HAD TO LISTEN AND RESTART THE CW ELMER MULTIPLE
TIMES WITH PRETTY POOR TIMING WHILE SENDING, I REDUCED MY SPEED TO
10 WPM.  ON THE MAIN SCREEN, I PRESSED THE RED BUTTON, AND WHEN
SETTINGS WAS DISPLAYED, I SAW THE SETTINGS MENU ON THE TOP LCD AND
MULTIPLE OPTIONS ON THE BOTTOM, INCLUDING WPM, TIMING, CHARS, AND
SIDETONE.  ADDITIONALLY, THERE IS AN ABOUT SECTION THAT SHOWS THE
VERSION NUMBER.  THE FINAL OPTION WITHIN THE SETTINGS MENU IS
CANCEL, WHICH SENDS YOU BACK TO THE MAIN MENU.  TO ACCESS ANY OF
THESE OPTIONS, TAP THE RED BUTTON DURING THE 2 SECONDS THAT OPTION
IS DISPLAYING.  THE OPTIONS ARE 5 TO 40 WPM IN 5 WPM INCREMENTS.
AFTER YOU CHANGE THE SPEED BY PRESSING THE RED SIDE BUTTON, THE UNIT
SAVES THE SETTINGS AND TAKES THE USER BACK TO THE MAIN MENU.  I
RETURNED TO THE SETTINGS MENU AND SELECTED TIMING MODE.  THERE ARE
MULTIPLE OPTIONS IN TIMING MODE NORMAL, FARNSWORTH 18, AND
FARNSWORTH 25.  THE FARNSWORTH METHOD IS GENERALLY CONSIDERED TO BE
AN EFFECTIVE WAY TO LEARN MORSE CODE.  IT ALLOWS INDIVIDUALS TO
RECOGNIZE THE PATTERNS OF MORSE CODE CHARACTERS AT A HIGHER SPEED,
WHICH MAKES IT EASIER FOR THEM TO SEND AND RECEIVE MORSE CODE
QUICKLY LATER ON.  I CHOSE TO STAY WITH THE DEFAULT METHOD, NORMAL.
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