[Elecraft] Slow Code Watering Holes? QRS-CW & FISTS

[Mark Saunders, KJ7BS]

The netschedule one is new to me, but here are my suggestions.

Join the FISTS CW club http://www.fists.org (The International Morse Preservation Society).  Signup for their "Code Buddy" program, which pairs you with an experienced CW operator to help you (1) improve operating skill, (2) improve your fist, and (3) improve your copy speed.  This is a very social group with lots of operating activities.  FISTS members hangout around 3.558, 7.058, 10.118, 14.058, 18.085, 21.058, 24.895, and 28.058 MHz.  Listen for CQ FISTS.

QRS-CW is a Yahoo Groups list  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/QRS-CW/ where QRS CW like-minded individuals can meet and share what works for them, make schedules, and help each other.  I found a list of QRS CW watering holes and the end in .050 (7.050, 14.050, 21.050, and 28.050) of each band.  Listen for them, you can't miss them, they are the slower CW operators.

Congratulations for getting on the air, slow CW and all.  I give you lots of credit for even trying CW.  If you want a slow QSO or just practice, I will gladly schedule something with you, just ask.  

If it makes you feel any better, I had trouble copying the speed deamons at field day, too.  I'm good to about 22 WPM, but really have to work at it and I can't do it for long periods of time.

BTW: My 79 year-young father-in-law who wears hearing aids has learned morse well enough to copy everything I send at about 7 WPM.  He will be taking his code test in the next few weeks.

Mark Saunders, KJ7BS
Glendale, AZ

---- "Stephen W. Kercel" <kercel1 at suscom-maine.net> wrote: 

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Fellow Elecrafters:

At the KS1R Field Day operation we had a bunch of 5 wpm operators who 
wanted to try their hand at CW on our GOTA station. They were very 
disappointed because they could not find any slow stations, and the 
20+ wpm CW that most Field Day operators were running simply 
overwhelmed them. Nevertheless, they are interested in improving 
their overall on the air proficiency in CW.

Are there particular frequencies where slow code operators who want 
to talk to other slow code operators hang out?

73,

Steve
AA4AK


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