Ian,
When I practice with Morserunner, I set it for 10 minute runs with an
activity of 4, using the HST mode. With 2 teenage kids, there's just
too much commotion around here to be sure I'll have an uninterrupted 60
minutes :.)
BTW, Moresrunner will be replacing PED this year in the HST. This year
is the R1 championship, which will be later this month in LZ. I won't
be there, but hope to go next year.
73,
Barry
K5ZM wrote:
> Not to mention having to put up with lids! Yes. There's actually a "lid
> factor" incorporated into MR. Actually, it seems to increase right along
> with one's progress. Most frustrating :)
>
> But I do tend to agree: More often than not, it's not so much having
> miscopied a call as it is having mistyped it. Argh!
>
> BTW, Barry... Where are you on the MR high score list?? I'd fully expected
> to see you in the Top Ten. But I went all the way down 'til I saw my own
> call -and I know you're not below that! :)
>
> Are you using a different call?
>
> 73,
>
> Ian, K5ZM
>
>
>
> www.k5zm.com
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: cq-contest-bounces@contesting.com [mailto:cq-contest-
>> bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Barry
>> Sent: Monday, September 11, 2006 6:36 PM
>> To: cq-contest@contesting.com
>> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] CW Accuracy
>>
>> There's no question age is a factor. I've been doing some RUFZ
>> practicing lately and I find progress VERY slow. As a matter of fact, I
>> think I've only improved back to the level I was at when I was a teenager.
>>
>> While I enjoy running RUFZ, it's not ideal for improving contest skills,
>> as you're really not copying calls in real time - you have as long as
>> you want to enter the call.
>>
>> Try Morserunner. It's an excellent contest simulation with pileups,
>> exchanges to copy, and time pressure. As you become more proficient,
>> increase the speed a little bit at a time.
>>
>> 73,
>> Barry, W2UP
>>
>>
>> W4ZW said:
>>
>> After reviewing a few of my past log UBN reports, I decided to find out
>> where I was busting calls. So I started working out with RUFZ-XP and made
>> several interesting discoveries. The first culprit is my typing ability,
>>
> or
>
>> lack there of. I never learned touch typing and have adopted the hunt and
>> peck method until I feel fairly comfortable, but limited by speed.
>>
>> I switched to computer logging completely about 15 years ago, although I
>> wrote programs to do computer logging on DEC, WANG, and DG minicomputers
>>
> a
>
>> jillion years ago for FD and SS. I'd never noticed a large error rate
>>
> until
>
>> studying my UBN's. I have enough hearing loss in my left ear at certain
>> frequencies such that often sounds seem "muddled" and I do miss calls when
>> doing SO2R and have returned to basic SO1R because of it. But I wanted to
>> see exactly where I was making the errors and I discovered several
>> interesting things.
>>
>> My typing errors were the first and most obvious culprit when I simply hit
>> the wrong key. But I also discovered that I almost always get the call
>>
> right
>
>> if it's a "standard" call, that is a 1x3 or 2x3 or shorter because I have
>>
> it
>
>> in my head cache at speeds up to about 50wpm. But if it's a
>>
> XX7/anything
>
>> I have a momentary mental blink and miss the complete call. Also
>>
> sometimes
>
>> have a mental blink and a degree of error with the Call/QRP. And last, at
>> speeds over 40wpm I mix the "S" and "H", and that from a guy who was K4HHG
>> for 40 years. Also found certain "mental stops" with repeated characters
>> and certain letters like "T", e.g. copy "UTU" as "VTU" or just "TU".
>>
>> When I stir this all around with my poor typing, I can see how my UBN is
>> higher than I want. I also think some of this has to do with aging,
>>
> because
>
>> I remember how clearly I could grab calls in my head when I was younger
>> (especially in my teens when my head cache was really BIG) and putting
>>
> them
>
>> down with a pencil. I tried using a pencil with RUFZ and discovered that
>>
> my
>
>> accuracy did improve, but not enough to give up the wonderful advantage of
>> computer logging.
>>
>> Anyone else notice this aging by-product?
>>
>> Jon Hamlet, W4ZW
>>
>> Casey Key Island, Florida
>> "A little piece of paradise in the Gulf of Mexico"
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> Barry Kutner, W2UP
>> Newtown, PA
>>
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