[CW] Learning hints

[Kate Hutton]

Michiel -

>From my own experience, which is very recent, I would say 30 min per day is
a minimum.  I hardly have a chance to concentrate in 5 min.

Also, I make progress when I practice every day, no skips.

Kate KD6HTN

On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 1:07 PM, Michiel Wories <mwories at hotmail.com> wrote:

>  Hi I am a fairly new HAM who caught the bug again after a long time (I
> did 11m DX when I was 15-17 years old on a 3 el beam and 100W tube linear).
>
> I found myself particularly attracted to QRP and CW and set myself the goal
> to learn CW before getting on the air. Turns out there is a lot of things to
> learn anyway so I am learning the ropes of setting up antenna's (I build 2
> PAC-12's and have a homemade wire setup on my roof) and learning about
> propagation and bands as I learn CW.
>
> I am using Koch at character speed 20 and word speed 10 in my training
> sessions.
>
> So far it's been going great and I think I just need to practice more to
> get to the full set of characters.
>
> I seems to plateau a bit on 25/26 characters into Koch but I think this is
> due that I got this far on 5 minutes of training per day. I will step up my
> training sessions.
>
> Any useful tips and hints are appreciated how to get to the full set.
>
> I also am interested in learning how to use a key. I have one straight MFJ
> practice key but I am not sure that is the way to go. I have an FT-817 that
> has a training mode AFAIK so I should be able to try different keys. Any
> tips here?
>
> Thanks,
> Michiel
>
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