[ADXA] QRQ CW

[Dennis Schaefer]

I was amazed at the young man copying over 200 WPM CW.  Adrian reassured us
that it is legitimate and I was not successful in finding any way to cheat
or hack RUFZXp.  All I can say is that the human brain is marvelous, but
mine is a little less marvelous than some!

We are trying a CW class here in the Russellville area.  We will probably
have 4 or 5 students.   I looked at the Learn CW Online web site and I
think we can use it in the class.  I tried some practice on words on the
site and found that I could do reasonably well at 50 WPM but not well at
all at 55.

There are a lot of settings, and I set it for words up to 3 characters at
60 WPM.  I was surprised that I could get about 20%  correct.   It was the
same at 65.  Not much at 70, though, so I reduced the word size to two
characters.  Now I was copying some of them.    Things were pretty slim
between 70 and 100 WPM, but I was able to copy one two letter word (MY) at
100 WPM.

Now I’m intrigued - would it be possible to push my limits?  I always
thought my physiological limit was about 53 WPM.   However, if I can get
some of the very short words at well above that……..

Will I ever copy callsigns at 70 WPM?  Almost certainly not.  Anything over
two letters at 100 WPM?  Probably not.  It’s interesting, though.

73,
Dennis/RZ
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