[Elecraft] Bad fist

[stephen Farthing]

Hi Gentlefolk,

    When I was learning the code, back then to get a UK class A licence one 
had to pass a mandatory receiving and transmitting test, i used to practice 
sending by hooking my straight key up to the serial port of my PC. I had an 
excellent canadian program which took the input and made the sound and put 
the character on the screen...with a bit of visual feedback it did not take 
long for me to send fairly accurate code...the listening part of the test 
was the biggest hurdle. Its been a while since i have been able to transmit 
CW and the program has long gone...wish i could find it or something similar 
to get my sending back up to par...73 from cold and rainy UK.

Steve G0XAR
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike WA8BXN" <hubby2k at hotmail.com>
To: <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 4:09 PM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Bad fist


>A simple way to test your own fist might be to record (on cassette, etc)
> some of your own sending, save it for a few days and then play it back and
> see if you can easily copy it. Of the bad fists I have heard, the worst
> problem seems to be running letters together, followed by little 
> difference
> in the length of dots and dashes. Keyers help with the latter, but you can
> still run letters together. The MFJ cw reader is a good idea, there are 
> also
> some free cw copying programs on the net that could help as well.
> 73/72 - Mike WA8BXN
>
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