[CW] q vs y

[mikea]

On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 06:35:30PM -0500, wealsowalk at aol.com wrote:
>
> Just as if you you were playing bass, you also want to keep the
>groove. That is, you do not stop to figure out the note, but you keep
>going. With CW if you miss the letter, forget it, keep going and get
>the next one without missing the beat. Otherwise you get befuddled and
>miss the whole sentence while you are trying to figure the one letter.
>After a bit you copy the words (or even more), not the letters, just as
>you do when you read.

The "Here comes the Bride" dodge lasted just long enough to get the
rhythm in my head. Now I just hear the sound and copy the character --
unless I get distracted OR get in an actual QSO, at which point I get
flustered and can't copy aanything. *sigh*

The "just press on" advice is excellent. If you try to go back in your
memory, you'll get lost. 

I found myself, while doing housework yesterday, copying a conversation
in my head at what must have been 25 WPM. 

-- 
Mike Andrews, W5EGO
mikea at mikea.ath.cx
Tired old sysadmin