[TenTec] new to CW dxing

[Steve Mercure]

This might be a good time for my "why CW" take.  If you wish to work DX, but only have room for a minimal station, then CW is the best option.  I'm over 250 countries worked with only a ground mounted vertical and an 811H amplifier, mostly on CW.  There are several tricks thatone can use when chasing DX on CW where guile is king.  I've got nothing against SSB, and more power to the big gun phone stations and operators.  My love of CW doesn't make me a better ham than anyone else.  I simply can't affordto move where I can put up a big time DX station.  This means CW for me, oh and yes Ten Tec makes some AWSOME gear for CW operation.  A big chunk of my DX was worked with an OMNID.  
73 de W5EN Steve

> Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2012 21:14:22 -0400
> From: k3miy at csonline.net
> To: tentec at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] new to CW dxing
> 
> Dave
> 
> I used the same method to get my speed up, but after 15 wpm, the next
> step came with a mighty effort. So I gave up. I was stuck at 18 wpm
> (ARRL bulletin speed). Then in 1992, I wanted to get my Extra (needed
> to copy 20 wpm). So I found the ARRL code run that started at 35 wpm
> and went down to 10. After trying top down for 3 weeks, 20 wpm was slow.
> I also learned that this method is resistant to the ravages of old age.
> BTW I worked your 40 CW station during Field Day. I was running the call
> W3ZIC
> 
> Ron
> K3MIY
> 
> 
> 
> Quoting Dave Plews <djplews at comcast.net>:
> 
> > Al's (WB5JNC) comments are ones that remind me of my experience in learning 
> > the Morse Code.  One of the methods that helped me after I learned the 
> > letters was to use Code Records.  The Code Records though started out at 5 
> > WPM and then increased by steps until they got up to 15 or 20 WPM as I 
> > recall by small increments.  They send for fairly long periods of time, too.
> > By the time they got up to 10 WPM or so my hand and wrist were quite tired 
> > writing / printing everything down on paper.  So I'd stop and do something 
> > else until the next night.
> > The next night I started at the same place (i.e. slowest speed) and worked 
> > my way up as far as I could go.  I couldn't ever get past about 10 WPM.  I 
> > stopped again and waited till the next night.  The next night resulted in 
> > the same skill level, 10 WPM.  Ugh!
> > So I decided that I'd skip right up to the 10 WPM instead and go on from 
> > there the next night.  Wow!  What a difference!  I went right up to 15 or 
> > higher WPM.  The next night I started from where I left off and by no time I
> > 
> > was copying Morse Code at 20 WPM and I was ready to copy the W1AW 
> > Proficiency Run before I ever got my ham radio ticket.  I think I was able 
> > to do 30 WPM by the time I went down to the FCC office in downtown Chicago 
> > to take the General.
> > I've enjoyed CW immensely ever since.
> > Dave W9TG... 
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