[UK-CONTEST] Typing skills and contesting

[Tom GM4FDM]

"Taught in the lunch hour"  hmmmmmmmmmm  I see....... ;-)



Tom
GM4FDM

On 15/08/2011 13:23, Roger Cooke wrote:
> Hi Stewart.
>
>    I do use touch typing, I was lucky when I first went to work I was amazed at
> the typing pool. The girls in there
>
> could carry on a conversation with me and carry on typing their letters at the
> same time, so I persuaded one to
> teach me in the lunch hour. It has been very useful, and being a pianist, it
> also helps.  I definitely believe that it
> can only be a help, because you do watch the screen at the same time anyway, so
> corrections are not a problem.
>     I also have set in N1MM the facility that enables transmit after 3
> characters. However I have been caught out
>
> with that on a couple of occasions when the other station has been /A or /P.
> Again, like you, a note on a piece of
> paper for post contest correction usually puts that right.
>
>
>
> Regards from Roger, G3LDI
> Swardeston, Norfolk.
>
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Stewart Rolfe<gw0etf at btinternet.com>
> To: UK-Contest<uk-contest at contesting.com>
> Sent: Mon, 15 August, 2011 11:32:21
> Subject: [UK-CONTEST] Typing skills and contesting
>
> Some interesting comments in the latest thread about typing skills.
>
> I'm a self taught touch typist but don't seem to have the confidence to use it
> properly in a contest. Nevertheless I can keep up with most situations I find
> myself in and am happy enough for example to press Enter to start sending before
> I've finished entering the call ('type ahead'..?).
>
> However, I spent some time in WAE cw at the weekend and for me QTCs are a
> totally different matter; there's no way I'm going to type these in real time
> when you're normally talking 30wpm minimum. I'm afraid I'm writing them on paper
> and entering them post contest with all the dangers of reading my own rapidly
> scribbled letters; in fact I discovered a pdf form in my old files that DARC
> used to produce for just this purpose so presumably I'm not alone, though it
> doesn't seem to be available now.
>
> So is touch typing to be considered an essential tool in a contester's armour?
>
> 73,
>
> Stewart, GW0ETF
>
> PS I did half intend to get tooled up with audio recording for the purposes of
> checking my QTCs but never got round to it - feels a bit like cheating anyway?
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