thanks Gary I will keep at it . John kb2huk
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gary Smith" <Gary@doctorgary.net>
To: "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment" <tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 1:10 PM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] ot
> I'm not one of the big dogs in copying CW. I did get a certificate
> for copying 45 wpm back in the early 90's but put my equipment away
> after moving into a basement apartment in Chicago after getting a
> divorce in 95.
>
> It sucks to go from a 110' tall tower with KLM monobanders & a series
> of vertically polarized delta loops with vac-variable coupling at the
> feedpoints to allow 1:1 SWR coverage of all frequencies on all HF
> bands to living underground with no option of an outdoor or even
> ground level antenna.
>
> After that I was never in a place to really operate so everything was
> kept as mothballed until this last fall when I moved to a new QTH and
> can now have a station that transmits again.
>
> I'm sure it's a real gas to copy at 60 wpm & I'd like that but I
> can't type that fast with my bad left hand so I don't use the
> keyboard to send & I can only send around 35 or so cleanly with the
> iambic. Not sure how many there are that send & copy at those
> stratospheric speeds without reading their screens for the text, most
> everything I hear is roughly 35 & down; mostly down.
>
> That said, my CW has taken a hit & I can't copy nearly as well as I
> could, I'm probably down to 30 wpm comfortably.
>
> So my suggestion of how to movre your cw copy speed upward:
>
> I'm not in the least bit concerned about getting my top easy copy
> speed back as though for I do love contesting on CW and that will be
> my muse. Getting involved in first time copy of call signs is a real
> learning tool and the more CW contests someone enters, the faster
> your copy will become.
>
> Heck, you don't have to be a participant even, you can just make the
> game of seeking as many call signs and logging them as you hear them.
> When you see all the dupes coming and at high speed cw, you'll have a
> nice gauge as to how well you're doing.
>
> Just another avenue to improving your speed in reasonable attainable
> speeds.
>
> Gary
> KA1J
> Who has made but one SSB QSO in the last 7 months... I do love CW
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