Paul, don't be discouraged by the fast code...at first it'll sound like just
dash/dot noise...but after a while, you'll start to pick up a word or two,
and sooner than you'd think, you'll be able to copy it better. As their
speed decreases, your comprehension will rise.
Good luck.
Larry, N0XB
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Gates, KD3JF" <pearly732003@yahoo.com>
To: "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment" <tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Saturday, May 27, 2006 5:08 AM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Mobile CW
> Thank you for this info and will try this. I know if the code is sent
> around 10 wpm I can copy in my head but that is about it! I will try the
> 35 wpm today.
>
> Paul, KD3JF
> Glen Burnie, MD
> FM19qd (Map Grid Square)
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Ron Zond <k3miy@csonline.net>
> To: "Paul Gates, KD3JF" <pearly732003@yahoo.com>; Discussion of Ten-Tec
> Equipment <tentec@contesting.com>
> Sent: Friday, May 26, 2006 9:15:36 PM
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] Mobile CW
>
> hi Paul
>
> You copy code in your head before it goes on the paper.
> It is my experience that the faster the code, the easier the copying.
> To do this in the shortest amount of time, listen to W1AW session that
> starts
> at 35 wpm and work down. I guarantee that, within a month, you will read
> 25
> wpm
> in your head with ease. This technique helped me to copy and remember, the
> 20 wpm
> text for my Extra 14 years ago on two hours of sleep. I have also found
> the
> with
> the standard ham CW conversation, I can do other things and listen at the
> same time.
> I am half blind and half deaf, so you should have no problem. I also
> discovered that,
> if you consciously try to "decode" the code, you wil stumble. Old time
> telegraphers know whereof
> I speak. Try it and see. Good luck and 73
>
> Ron
> K3MIY
> k3miy@csonline.net
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: tentec-bounces@contesting.com
> [mailto:tentec-bounces@contesting.com]On Behalf Of Paul Gates, KD3JF
> Sent: Friday, May 26, 2006 8:29 PM
> To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] Mobile CW
>
>
> How did you learn to copy code in your head?
>
> Paul, KD3JF
> Glen Burnie, MD
> FM19qd (Map Grid Square)
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: john.brewer@us.schneider-electric.com
> To: tentec@contesting.com
> Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2006 3:58:08 PM
> Subject: [TenTec] Mobile CW
>
>
> It's certainly quite possible to work CW mobile without a safety risk....
> if
> you would have
> asked me this before I tried it, I'd have disagreed too, but after a
> number
> of months of just
> copying QSOs in my head, it's become second nature, and far far less
> demanding than talking on
> a cell phone, for example. The great by product is that I've became very
> good at copying CW
> in my head....and though I'm only at the 25-28 WPM or so range, it's
> allowed
> me to break
> through a barrier that was in place because I was in the habit of "stick"
> copying everything.
> Now I can't stick copy (I think this is akin to touch typing. . . at some
> point, looking at the
> keys becomes a burden, not an aid!)
>
> CW mobile works far better (with the normally inefficient antennas) than
> mobile SSB, and has
> really become a joy. I use a 706MkII....paddles are a set of homebrew
> contacts about 3" long
> that are clipped to a bracket extending from the console / armrest in my
> Jeep. My hand drapes
> normally onto the homebrew paddles, I copy in my head, I use a post it
> note
> on my steering
> wheel to jot down a call and I feel far less distracted in doing so than
> yakking on a
> cellphone.
>
> Living is a risk...we all pick our operating point.
>
> John K5MO
>
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