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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