[TenTec] Mobile CW

[Paul Gates, KD3JF]

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 at csonline.net>
To: "Paul Gates, KD3JF" <pearly732003 at yahoo.com>; Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment <tentec at 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 at csonline.net

-----Original Message-----
From: tentec-bounces at contesting.com
[mailto:tentec-bounces at 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 at us.schneider-electric.com
To: tentec at 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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