[UK-CONTEST] Morse dyslexia

[Ken Eastty]

  >I think I am suffering from what I can only describe as morse 
dyslexia and wonder
>  if anyone else has the same problem. I'm fairly OK with the rythymic
>  characters like C,F,L etc. but struggle with S,H and 5 when sent at
>  speed. So Slovenian stations are particularly difficult to cope with
>  at speed and any other call starting with S or H. I can listen to the
>  call four or five times and still not be 100% certain that I have
>  copied it correctly and frequently have to give up.

Ron,

You are definitely not alone in this and it's not just the 'dot' 
characters that I lose
as the speed increases, I sometimes find it difficult to distinguish  
between  'V' & '4' etc.
Some people put this down to learning E, I, S, H  etc. I guess that this 
is how I learnt CW
(can't remember now it's too long ago!). Unfortunately I've passed it on 
to others but at
least it's not as bad as learning 'reversals'.
You are probably right with whatever you thought the call was the first 
time you heard it.
If you try the speed tests in Rufz (http://www.rufzxp.net/) you will 
almost certainly see
your errors starting to build with the above characters as the speed 
increases.
Rufz & other similar programs all help when it comes to improving your 
CW speed.
I wonder why it is that so few 'G' calls figure in the Rufz 'Toplist' 
although it's good to see a
sprinkling of UK novice & foundations license holders posting scores. 
It's interesting to see the
number of German & East Europeans who post scores, some of these guys 
can copy callsigns
at the most amazing speeds  - 240 WPM! How's that possible and aren't 
there any 'G's who a
can match these speeds? (not me for one!)

73....

Ken

G3LVP