Howdy Bill,
You are quite welcome to join us each Sunday on the Elecraft CW Net.
We do have a semi regular check in from VE1 and another from VE3. That
more or less brackets you :) I live out in Oregon but there are a few
stations further East of me which act as NCS during the nets. Yes, nets.
There are two of them. The first is at 2300z at or near 14050 kHz. The
other is a bit later at 0200z on or near 7045 kHz. If you don't wish to
check in you can simply listen as the band changes and hear ops from
across the continent exchange signal and weather reports. There is a bit
of other chatter going on too. That way you'll hear a number of different
fists from a variety of locations. Power ranges from 3 watts to 800 watts
or more. I stay at 20 wpm on my keyer but slow down to whatever speed
required by adding spaces. The main reason for that is I never learned
how to send much slower than 15 wpm. Just a quirk I guess but I learned
CW via the Farnsworth method. This technique allows one to hear the
entire character as a chunk but leave a bit of space for the brain to
catch up. Just before I got to 15 wpm copy my mentor started taking out
the inter-letter spacing and tried inter-word spacing. That lasted a
short while until one day I found he wasn't adding any extra spacing
anywhere. Then the fun began ;) He kept going slightly faster than I was
comfortable until I caught up again. That was very helpful. But, getting
on the air and chatting with someone is much better practice than
listening to W1AW. I found sending to myself in TEST mode was helpful for
developing my muscle memory. It sounds odd but I 'feel' the code coming
into my ears in my arm.
Good luck with your endeavor and please join us,
Kevin. KD5ONS
On Wed, 28 Jun 2006 12:05:30 -0700, William Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
So, I have returned to W1AW code practice sessions. I will take the K2
out
of tESt (except on SKN New Years Eve), when I can once again copy up to
15-20 wpm and hopefully transmitting with some vestige of skill using
Iambic
keying.
Thank you for any advice.
Bill, VE2WMA
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