[CW] Building Code Speed: Random Characters or Words?

[David J. Ring, Jr.]

>From  KG4VOX
From: "Richard Slone" <sloner@earthlink.net>
> Hi all,   I am tying to get my code speed up from the low 20s to a little
higher. KG4VOX

Dear Richard,

You are at THE hard spot.  Commercial operators used to say that 20 was a
barrier that could only be overcome by hard work.

There was a novel written by a Canadian Radio Officer, Thomas Raddall about
Sable Island in which he has some very interesting insights to this problem.

http://www.qsl.net/n1ea/The%20Nymph%20and%20the%20Lamp.pdf

I would suggest lots of listening - you're at the usual "top" of pencil
coping ability - although I've seen some copy 50 wpm by pencil.

Leave a receiver on and listen to what is going on in some sort of round
table - yes they do have those on CW - usually groups meet around 8 AM or 8
PM on 40 or 80 meters - also some on 20 meters.

If you find such a group - like the Queen Bee Net on 14038 during the day
and 7038 at 8 pm Eastern Time, have a listen.  This is a group sending
between 23 and 35 wpm with operators from New England to Florida to Texas -
some running a kW and beams.

I wish you fun in CW.

73

DR