Hi Colin,
I'm glad to see you're motivated to learn the code. It's a lot of fun. My
suggestion would be to try and learn the sounds of the letters: that is,
learn "a" as dida, L as didadidit, period as didadidadida, etc. If you have
a ham transceiver or short-wave radio you can listen on, listen to CW on the
novice portions of 40 and 80 (7.100-7.150 and 3.675-3.725 MHZ respectively.
Try and pick out what you can. Also, get a code oscillator and practice
sending

-----Original Message-----
From: Blind-Hams For blind ham radio operators
[mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Colin McDonald
Sent: Monday, May 16, 2005 6:34 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: cw versus txt messaging


speaking of CW.
I am working on becoming perficient at 5 words a minute to pass the CW 5WPM
requirement to get HF privilages here in Canada.
What i am looking for are any bad habbits i should watch out for while
learning the code, as well as any general, or even specific tips and tricks
that experienced hams can pass on to me regarding the learning of the code.
My goal is to be perficient enough in CW at 5WPM in order to pass the 3
minute send, and three minute receiving of cw at 5WPM that is required by
the test, by the 25th of June.
In other words, i want this thing mastered, or at least where i am good
enough, to get pass the test by field day so that i may participate without
supervision in an active field day HF station.
Any advice or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
73
Colin, V A6BKX
----- Original Message -----
From: "Howard Kaufman" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, May 16, 2005 6:22 PM
Subject: Re: cw versus txt messaging


> I go around 25 comfortably and had to work to copy it.  I think it was 30
wpm.
> Really cool!
>