ojunk (G. Doughty) wrote in message ...
Well, passed my element one with no problems yesterday and have been trying to
get some contacts on hf with cw. I love cw but 5wpm just isn't cutting it so I am back to Numorse to bring up my speed.

That's excellent but don't limit yourself to just the computer.

Listen around the bands too. Part of what you may be experience is not
being skilled (yet) at both running the rig and copying code. The way
to cure that is to use your rig to listen to real live code.

W1AW sends code practice on a regular schedule and should be very
strong at your location on 80 and 40 meters in the evenings. Check

http://www.arrl.org

for the current schedule.

Also, don't limit yourself to 5 wpm or whatever speed you can copy.
Spend some time at higher speeds. Even if you only get 1 letter out of
every 3, it will sharpen your reflexes and when you listen to 5 wpm it
will sound much slower. Try a range of speeds, up to the point where
you only get maybe 10-20% of what's being sent.


Anyone out there that tried a contact
with me, sorry. I was forever putting out QRS and still not getting it all.

No problem. We were all beginners once.


I
will be back though as I cannot use phone when the baby is sleeping. The
light
*tick-ticking* on the straight key doesn't disturb her as much as me talking.

Just another advantage of the mode!

73 es GL de Jim, N2EY