[Yaesu] Quick Question

[Harry Hodges]

Hi Neil,

I am a VE Site Manager, a 20 wpm Extra Class and the world's second worst CW
operator. I became a Ham in my early 40s when CRS was firmly taking hold of
my neurons. I figure that if I could make it anyone could; however, it takes
COMMITMENT! If you want to do anything bad enough you'll find a way. If you
are blind and want to climb tall mountains you can do it and if you have a
physical impairment and want to sky dive you can do it. You just have to
COMMIT yourself to it, whatever it is.

In the case of Morse Code or CW, you need to find a tutorial that matches
your learning style. Some people are tactile, or aural, or visual, or a
combination of all these. Once you have found the appropriate program, you
MUST COMMIT about an hour a day, EVERY DAY, to it. 15-20 minutes in the
morning, 15-20 minutes in the evening, and another 15-20 minutes at noon
time while you go for a walk or sit under a tree meditating. And just don't
practice listening, SEND with a straight key, semi-automatic, or iambic,
whatever but practice converting the written word into sound. As you drive,
or pedal your bike around, convert the street signs and billboard ads into
code in your head. LIVE, EAT, and yeah, even dream code. At your age you
should ace the test in about 4-6 weeks.

Now, what does the test consist of? Well first of all, it will be a message
which will contain all 26 letters, numbers 0-9, punctuation consisting of
the comma, period, question mark, and slant bar, and the prosigns BT, AR,
and SK. Now a five minute code test at five wpm will about two lines of text
and will look something like this:

K1XYZ/4 DE WD3JUW/2 BT RRR JOHN. TNX FOR REPORT. UR RST 579 ? 579 IN
BUFFALO, NY 60 MILES FROM CANADA. NAME IS BARRY AND I RUN 80 WATTS. SO HOW
COPY? AR K1XYZ/4 DE WD3JUW/2 SK

Don't know if I got all 26 letters but you get the idea. You have two
chances to pass. One if you have 25 or more characters in a row without
mistake. Letters count one each, numbers, punctuation, and prosigns count as
two characters each. So from the first K to the first R you have 25 and all
the examiners have to do is find 25 in a row somewhere in the text you've
copied. The second chance is to answer 10 questions, e.g. what is the
callsign, how much power, etc? If you answer 7 of 10 correctly, you pass.
Man, this is not rocket science.Over the sixteen years I have been a VE
we've had folks who range from having all their faculties to being deaf,
blind, and bedridden who have passed 5 wpm and beyond. How did they do it?
COMMITMENT!

Try what I have recommended and you'll see that it works.

73, Harry

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Neil Kollipara, KC8YFF" <kc8yff@yahoo.com>
To: <kenwood@mailman.qth.net>; <icom@mailman.qth.net>;
<yaesu@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, November 21, 2003 20:01
Subject: [Yaesu] Quick Question


> Hello everyone on the email reflector.
>
> My name is Neil and I am a 13 year old ham in Michigan. I am going to go
to take the General class test tomorrow with the morse code. I was wondering
if any of you VEs or VECs could tell me if it's legal to write down the dits
and dahs (such as -. for N) instead of the letter because code has been
keeping me back from upgrading, and I came up with this idea in my English
class. Basically this is what I mean
>
> -..   .          -.   .   ..   .-..
> D   E         N   E  I     L
>
> I appreciate all your guys help. 73!
>
> --Neil KC8YFF
>
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