Jim I really appreciate your long explanations of learning to improve CW. Thanks so much! 73, Tom Bewick, k2bew
On Sat, Dec 28, 2019, 22:17 Jim Danehy <[email protected]> wrote: > The electrical pulses from your ear to your brain travel at extremely fast > speed. > > The speed of light in a vacuum is 186,282 miles a second ; about > 670,616,629 mph. > > My point ? At QRQ CW speeds something occurs that you normally do not > encounter at slower speeds. Look at a dictionary. Many words start with a > common pattern. After 5 or 6 letters there are alternatives. At QRQ speed > Your brain is actually ahead of what your ear is feeding your brain. It is > giving you a choice of words to choose from. > > The task is to choose the correct one. You are aided in that choice by the > context of the message. I don’t know why this occurs. But it does. > > So when you learn to copy Entire words rather than letters ; this is the > phenomenon that occurs at high speeds. It helps but it can also throw you a > curve ball. That is where message context enters the equation. > > When you copy entire words rather than all the letters you have > assistance. Your ability to copy faster speeds will improve with time. I > only mention this as things get better the longer you stay with it. > > It is called getting over the hump. Or through the walk. > > It usually appears more difficult to increase your speed. However things > do occur that help you achieve the ability to copy entire words. Then QRQ > CW becomes conversational. Kind of like auto fill with computer typing. > > 73 > Jim > W9VNE / VA3VNE > > > > > Sent from my iPhone > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to [email protected] ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
