Hi Gentlefolk,
When I was learning the code, back then to get a UK class A licence one
had to pass a mandatory receiving and transmitting test, i used to practice
sending by hooking my straight key up to the serial port of my PC. I had an
excellent canadian program which took the input and made the sound and put
the character on the screen...with a bit of visual feedback it did not take
long for me to send fairly accurate code...the listening part of the test
was the biggest hurdle. Its been a while since i have been able to transmit
CW and the program has long gone...wish i could find it or something similar
to get my sending back up to par...73 from cold and rainy UK.
Steve G0XAR
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike WA8BXN" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 4:09 PM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Bad fist
A simple way to test your own fist might be to record (on cassette, etc)
some of your own sending, save it for a few days and then play it back and
see if you can easily copy it. Of the bad fists I have heard, the worst
problem seems to be running letters together, followed by little
difference
in the length of dots and dashes. Keyers help with the latter, but you can
still run letters together. The MFJ cw reader is a good idea, there are
also
some free cw copying programs on the net that could help as well.
73/72 - Mike WA8BXN
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