[Elecraft] Learning morse code

[W0MU Mike Fatchett]

It takes time.  Proportionally more time to learn the code than it takes 
to become proficient.

I can still remember sitting at the radio club meeting at our JR High 
school.  Listening to the gibberish and then finally getting a whole 
word!  From there on it was pretty simple.  I am decent, certainly not 
conversational at CW.

We had a Ham Radio club during our lunch hour at school because one of 
the teachers was a ham.  One day he had one of the guys send some code.  
When it was over he took my sheet and graded it and said congratulations 
you just passed the 5 wpm code test. Smart guy.  Knowing that some many 
people tense up for tests, he did it under relaxed conditions.  One of 
my friends passed that day too.  We both easily passed the theory and we 
got sequential calls.

It is funny how cw seems to have far more activity now then when it was 
forced.


Mike W0MU

On 5/27/2014 12:22 PM, David Higdon wrote:
> Lee, Another option is CW Academy with the CW Ops club.  They offer mentors along with on air practice.  Also, there is the K3UK sked page where you can set up a sked and also  do a computer chat. That is sometimes helpful when you want to ask questions during on air practice.
>
> Good luck.
>
> Dave Higdon Jr
> KD4ICT
>
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