[CW] How to get proficient in morse?

[Ron Youvan]

Dan wrote:

> As one who likes CW, but is not the fastest op in the world, I can tell you that no matter what your
> copy speed is, it isn't worth a tinkers-dam if you cannot send at the same speed, or visa-versa.
> Sure it is nice to learn CW at 20 wpm or faster, but if I had to learn it at that speed before I got
> on the air, I would not have ever entered the wonderful world of CW. I learned CW by listening to
> tapes, spelling out road signs in CW; IE: S T O P would be ... - --- .--. etc. I did the same with
> license plates.

   I tried that from 1956 until 1973, then I took a class and got to 5 wpm.  I never got much faster.

   A few years later I took another class where the letters were started at 14 wpm and by the end 
everything was being sent over 20 wpm, the abbreviations and pro-signals were also taught.
In 6 weeks of two nights a week I became a 20 WPM operator in need of experience.
I'm still working on that.  I did not "know how to learn the code," I am NOT musical, that helps!
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