CW Speed

[Paul Gates]

One and All.... I am mighty proud of myself. After 20 years not hitting a
lick on CW I discovered a few weeks a go I could copy 10WPM solid! Was I
ever depressed. With a K1 and a KX1 as my primary operating I knew I had to
do something fast. I ordered K7QO's CD through FISTS in Michigan and it is a
new concept to me in learning CW and the program helps to develop immediate
character recognition which I think is usually our problem.

When I was going for my 13 WPM back in 1961 I had an awful time with the
letter "L" and finally in desperation my teacher said "Whenever you you
don't know a letter just write down "L"! it worked.

But the good news now is after 2 or 3 weeks with using the K7QO program I am
copying 20 WPM. This may be off topic a little bit... If it is I am sorry
and I will never do it again! <g>
Paul Gates
K1  #0231
KX1 #1186
XG1
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[Brian Mury-3]

On Fri, 2005-07-01 at 11:18 -0400, Paul Gates wrote:
> When I was going for my 13 WPM back in 1961 I had an awful time with the
> letter "L" and finally in desperation my teacher said "Whenever you you
> don't know a letter just write down "L"! it worked.

That only works if you are having trouble with only one character. :-)


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73, Brian
VE7NGR
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[Leigh L. Klotz Jr WA5ZNU]

Paul,
That trick works FB!  For me it was "K" and I was 5 and my father would
say "dah dit dah" and I would say, "I don't know" and he would say "What
is the only letter you don't know?" and I would say "K".  Go figure.  I
told the story to my kids and that is how they learned K.

On Fri, 1 Jul 2005 8:18 am, Paul Gates wrote:
> When I was going for my 13 WPM back in 1961 I had an awful time with
> the
> letter "L" and finally in desperation my teacher said "Whenever you you
> don't know a letter just write down "L"! it worked.
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[Mike Markowski]

Paul Gates wrote on 07/01/05 11:18 ET:
> When I was going for my 13 WPM back in 1961 I had an awful time with the
> letter "L" and finally in desperation my teacher said "Whenever you you
> don't know a letter just write down "L"! it worked.

So that was you on the first day learning code who copied, "LLLLLLLL
LLLLL LLLLLLL".  That is, "practice makes perfect"!  :-P

> But the good news now is after 2 or 3 weeks with using the K7QO program I am
> copying 20 WPM.

Congrats, Paul!  I hope to run into you on the air soon.  Maybe we can
boost each other up to 30 wpm.  :-)

73,
Mike  AB3AP
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