[CW] How to get proficient in morse?

[D.J.J. Ring, Jr.]

Nerves?  That reminds me of September 1980 when I was in San Francisco
harbor aboard "The greyhound of the seven seas" - WILLIAMSBURGH / WGOA  and
I had a personal message on San Francisco Radio's traffic list.  Now I
usually didn't miss anything especially when the station was less than 10
miles away, but this day it was a personal message for me and contained the
details of a death.  I just couldn't copy, I froze up and I kept breaking
the sending station - who was getting peeved at me.  I finally said to him
"Don't you understand that the message is for me and contains word that my
best friend just died?" Maybe that did it because he QRS to about 18 wpm
instead of the usual 27 wpm and I was able to copy between tears falling.
The other operator knew I usually could copy bunches of messages without
breaking for a fill - but not this day.

Sometimes it is more difficult to copy than normal.

73

DR

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On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 9:14 AM, N9GXA, Paul <n9gxa.paul at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Michiel,
>
>   I want to believe another variable is nerves. It helps me to realise that
> my QSO's are a simple chat and not part a disaster or something where
> traffic should be copied letter for letter. It's just a QSO - and then my
> copy proficiency seems to improve.
>
> 73 - Paul - N9GXA
>
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 11:23 PM, Michiel Wories <mwories at hotmail.com>wrote:
>
>>   Hi,
>>
>> This is probably a question that pops from time to time. I had been
>> learning morse code a while ago using the Koch method. I was able to
>> reliably copy code at decent speed, but making a transition in copying real
>> QSO’s seems a transition is seems hard.
>>
>>
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