[TenTec] Re:Re: [Ten-Tec Orion] QSK

[Tommy]

Hi Jim...

Well truthfully there is a lot of folks who agree with your 
statement about doing it manually. Especially the German hams that 
operate in the HSC. They totally scoff at the ham's in the states 
because we use keyboards to send...they use paddles and are darned 
good at it up to around 70 wpm. The other side of the coin is the we 
use nothing but our ears to COPY high speed CW and that's where the 
real fun comes into play. Even though my typing ability on a  Dvorak 
keyboard is pretty good, some days I just seem to make horrible 
typing errors.

But the whole thing about high speed CW is it is just another fun 
part of this hobby, something else to do to add to your enjoyment, 
if you like CW.

When your learning to copy higher speeds, about 40 wpm is where it 
tends to get a little harder. However, there is a definate barrier 
around the 55 wpm range. Every one I know of who does high speed 
shares that same problem. It is in the 50-60 wpm range that your 
literally trying to train your brain to transition from letter and 
word copy, into sentenance copy. All of the folks that I run 60 wpm 
and higher with understand that being 'in tune' with the flow of the 
conversation begins in that range. All of this high speed stuff in 
purely conversational CW, send me word groups and I'm sure I'll get 
lost around 35-40 wpm. Fortunately we don't speak in word groups!

Tom - W4BQF

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Davis" <nn6ee at yahoo.com>
To: "Ten-Tec List" <tentec at contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2005 5:03 PM
Subject: [TenTec] Re:Re: [Ten-Tec Orion] QSK


> Tom-W4BQF,
>
> I could never go to high-speed CW using a Computer and
> a keyboard because to us if I can't do it manually
> then it's really not worth doing @ all!!!  :-)))
>
> I'm fairly good @ 35wpm (sending & receiving) and @
> 40wpm the copy is usually rather spotty and the
> sending at that speed isn't that great either!!!  LOL
>
> Jim/nn6ee
>
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