It takes time. Proportionally more time to learn the code than it takes
to become proficient.
I can still remember sitting at the radio club meeting at our JR High
school. Listening to the gibberish and then finally getting a whole
word! From there on it was pretty simple. I am decent, certainly not
conversational at CW.
We had a Ham Radio club during our lunch hour at school because one of
the teachers was a ham. One day he had one of the guys send some code.
When it was over he took my sheet and graded it and said congratulations
you just passed the 5 wpm code test. Smart guy. Knowing that some many
people tense up for tests, he did it under relaxed conditions. One of
my friends passed that day too. We both easily passed the theory and we
got sequential calls.
It is funny how cw seems to have far more activity now then when it was
forced.
Mike W0MU
On 5/27/2014 12:22 PM, David Higdon wrote:
Lee, Another option is CW Academy with the CW Ops club. They offer mentors
along with on air practice. Also, there is the K3UK sked page where you can
set up a sked and also do a computer chat. That is sometimes helpful when you
want to ask questions during on air practice.
Good luck.
Dave Higdon Jr
KD4ICT
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