[Yaesu] Quick Question

Sun, 23 Nov 2003 09:57:54 -0600

The test must be "graded" in text.  Best bet for learning is to get to where
you "hear" the letters.  It's much easier build speed that way.  There's a
limit to how fast you can "count the dots" - usually around 7-8 WPM.  But
it's perfectly allowable to skip a letter that you miss when you're copying,
then fill it in from the context.  For example, if you have trouble with
"P", and you copy "ANT HERE IS DI OLE", it's easy to figure that the missing
letter is P, just "edit" your copy before you turn it in for grading.
Better to skip the letter, and then get the word, than to pause to wrack
your brain for what didadadi translates to, and in the process miss dadadah
didadidit in the process.  (Easier to fill in DI_OLE than DIP___).  If you
absolutely have to, you could write the . _ _ ., but some VE's will question
your skill level if you did the WHOLE test that way.

Then again, last month I administered a test where the guy didn't even write
down as the code was sent.  All he wrote was the call signs at the beginning
and end, and about one word in five.  Guy was an ex-Navy radioman, just
getting his ham license, but had been copying code for years at >20WPM.  For
him, the 5WPM test was so slow he was copying whole sentences in his head.
Since he didn't copy "word for word", let alone letter by letter, he
couldn't get 25 characters in a row, but he got 10 of 10 on the questions,
because he got the gist of the message in all cases (by getting all the
"important" words).

Jay
AD5PE
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brian Carling" <[email protected]>
To: "Glen Zook" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>; "Neil Kollipara,
KC8YFF" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>;
<[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, November 22, 2003 3:33 PM
Subject: Re: [Yaesu] Quick Question

> But Neil - you CAN write bown BOTH if you wish, like you did in your
example.
> You just have to be able to translate those dits and dahs
> that you write down, into English letters!
>
> Good luck on your test!
>
> On 21 Nov 2003 at 13:23, Glen Zook wrote:
>
> > Nope!
> >
> > You have to write down the actual letter.
> >
> > Glen, K9STH
> >
> >
> > --- "Neil Kollipara, KC8YFF" <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > 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,
>
>
>
> Moderator: Ray Brown, KB�STN
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