[Elecraft] Re: Learning CW

[George, W5YR]

My experience, Mike, has been that really good CW ops can send and receive
equally well, discounting the oddballs with maladjusted bugs who
intentionally send "weird" code for the fun of it.

In fact, I cannot imagine how anyone with normal physical capabilities and
coordination could receive code well and not be able to send equally well,
provided that an element of practice is involved to keep the motor skills
tuned up.

The sending difficulty that most of us old timers face is being able to
retain in our mind the material that we intend to send and to spell it
correctly on-the-fly. In that sense, we can probably receive better than we
can send, but I can still toss out good code about as fast as I can receive
it. I doubt that I am alone in that . . .

73/72, George
Amateur Radio W5YR -  the Yellow Rose of Texas
Fairview, TX 30 mi NE of Dallas in Collin county EM13QE
"Starting the 58th year and it just keeps getting better!"
w5yr@att.net





----- Original Message ----- 
From: <MikeN2JZ@aol.com>
To: <elecraft@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2003 10:15 PM
Subject: RE: [Elecraft] Re: Learning CW


> I think sending and receiving CW share common pathways through the brain
but
> for the most part they are independent of one another. Therefore, being
able
> to send CW does help in being able to receive CW to some extent. However,
for
> the most part they require different skill sets i think and therefore,
someone
> who can send CW very well may in fact be a poor receiver and vica versa
but
> generally the former. I would venture to guess that the skillset
commonality
> between the two is about 20 percent or less.
>
>
>                                             73s,
>
>
>                                             Mike N2jz