[CW] Copy speed (Was: Straight key vs paddle)

[Bob]

If you really think you are ready to send CW with a straight key, bug or 
paddles ...

Set up your cassette recorder ..... turn it on to record  ....Get on 40 CW 
and have a few QSOs ...

Listen to the tape ....

Many times when you play it back it will be a humbling experience ...

We still occasionally record our CW QSOs after being on the bands for over 
55 years ...

As it is said ...  we should see and hear ourselves as others do ...

73  Whitey  K1VV


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron Zond" <k3miy at csonline.net>
To: "CW Reflector" <cw at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, April 19, 2010 2:54 PM
Subject: Re: [CW] Copy speed (Was: Straight key vs paddle)


> James and others
>
> You don't "copy" at 35 wpm. You listen, and listen some more. Use the W1AW
> practice run that starts
> at 35 wpm. After a few weeks, 25 wpm will sound slow, and you should be 
> able
> to write the characters.
> I did this to get over the 20 wpm hump for the Extra in the 90s. I was
> copying 20 wpm with ease after 3 weeks.
>
> Ron
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cw-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:cw-bounces at mailman.qth.net]On
> Behalf Of James Zuelow
> Sent: Monday, April 19, 2010 10:22 AM
> To: CW Reflector
> Subject: [CW] Copy speed (Was: Straight key vs paddle)
>
>
> On Monday 19 April 2010, Ron Zond wrote:
>> Mike
>>
>> You can copy 25 wpm  in three weeks, with just 15 min a day practice.
>> Start at 35 and work down.
>>
>> Ron
>> K3MIY
>>
>
> LOL.  (Or I guess HI HI HI here.)  How do you copy at 35 WPM?
>
> I'm still learning code, and my block is copy speed.  I can recognize a
> character faster, but I can't physically write them down faster than about
> 5-7wpm.  I can push 10 for short periods.
>
> The characters that get me are "e" and "t" -- especially that darn e.  I
> wait
> for more and then the next character starts and I'm hurredly writing an 
> "e"
> (which takes a *long* time) while listening to the next character at the
> same
> time.
>
> Then the next time I hear an e I start to write it down too quickly so I
> don't
> get behind, meaning I have to scratch it out when it suddenly morphs into 
> an
> i
> or an s, which puts me behind on that character.
>
> I'm still not familiar enough with the sounds to do well once I get 
> behind,
> so
> I have to skip some and start copying again.
>
> Makes me wish I had picked up shorthand when I was younger.
>
> James
> KL2ZZ
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