[UK-CONTEST] AFS CW

[John G3LZQ]

Well done David keep at it but dare I suggest
you go to
http://www.ac6v.com/morseprograms.htm all you
ever need to learn CW..
I still listen and use Morse Runner regularly
even if I can read the stuff at 40+ wpm. I
was taught morse code during my National
Service 57-years ago
never to be forgotten, but it still pays to
practice. Try hooking up SD and use the
Function keys it will help to give you the
confidence boost.

73


-----Original Message-----
From: uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com
[mailto:uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com]On
Behalf Of David Ferrington, M0XDF
Sent: 11 January 2011 16:30
To: UK-Contest
Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] AFS CW

Ok, I guess I'll join in - not being very
competent with morse and still learning, I
used the contest as a training exercise - I
listened and tried to read the code, doing my
best to ignore the K3 which is far better at
reading morse than I am :-(.
It took me quite a few mins to get most
callsigns, but then everyone seemed to be
working at more than 12 WPM, HiHi.
Once I'd got the callsign, I'd check what the
K3 was saying it was - I guess I got about
90% right.

I only worked out about 16 calls, since I as
doing other things too and most were far too
fast for me to follow. Getting the 599 and
serial was pretty easy, but then it's almost
always the same.
Different preambles, like 'test' or 'tst',
'cq test' and even 'cq cq test de' were
interesting.
I didn't feel competent to respond, because
most were far to fast.
I had a key ready, but I didn't hear one
single call in the whole 4 hrs in the QRS
corral, so didn't Tx.
But for me it was worthwhile.
--
73 de M0XDF


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