FW: CW

[Dan Barker]

Anytime you are practicing sending (or sending on the air for that matter),
it can be extremely enlightening (or depressing, depending on your fist) to
hook up a CW reader (I use CWGet) and look it over after your session. I
find it very helpful with spacing. If you can make a straight key send
0123456789 to CWGet without any errors or spaces, you've done something.
That's almost as hard as sending a paragraph!

I used to consistently sign "DEW G4S" until I started watching my sessions
on the laptop. Now I sign "DE WG4S". It's got to be easier on the other guy!

Dan / WG4S / K2 #2456

Bob Tellefsen sez:
<snip>
A good way to practice is to send to yourself from a page in a book.
</snip>

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[Vic K2VCO]

Dan Barker wrote:

> Anytime you are practicing sending (or sending on the air for that matter),
> it can be extremely enlightening (or depressing, depending on your fist) to
> hook up a CW reader (I use CWGet) and look it over after your session. I
> find it very helpful with spacing.

Poorly spaced CW is by far the hardest kind to copy.  Have you ever heard the
'banana boat swing?"  This describes a form of bug sending in which the number
of dits in a letter is more or less proportional to the speed!  No problem, I
can copy it.  Or the 'Lake Erie swing', also a bug phenomenon, in which you can
imagine the operator timing his code to the rolling of a ship: "daaaaah di
daaaaah dit DAT dah didah" (yes, the 'DAT' is intentional).

Thanks to keyers, these phenomena are only rarely heard today, but what we do
have is operators who run letters and words together.  For example, I have a
friend whose call apparently begins with "YH" (he is in California, see if you
can guess what he is trying to send).  Run-on word spacing is even worse,
leaving my head spinning.

--
73,
Vic, K2VCO
Fresno CA
http://www.qsl.net/k2vco

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[n6wg]

Good point, Dan.  Also, if you don't have a code
reader, try a simple audio tape recorder and listen
to yourself after a sending session.  You can coach
yourself to listen for badly sent characters or
spacing between characters or words.  This gives
you feedback on what to work on next session.
73, Bob N6WG
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[David A. Belsley]

Well, it took me some time to realize that lot's of cw ops out there
really weren't so involved with their phase locked loops that they felt
the need to begin many of their sentences with PLL.  But don't get me
started on poor sending or I'll have to start my rant about
peoplewhodonotspacebetweenwords.  Argh.


best wishes, and a great holiday season to all,

dave belsley, w1euy


On Dec 21, 2004, at 11:25 AM, Vic Rosenthal wrote:

> Dan Barker wrote:
>
>> Anytime you are practicing sending (or sending on the air for that
>> matter),
>> it can be extremely enlightening (or depressing, depending on your
>> fist) to
>> hook up a CW reader (I use CWGet) and look it over after your
>> session. I
>> find it very helpful with spacing.
>
> Poorly spaced CW is by far the hardest kind to copy.  Have you ever
> heard the 'banana boat swing?"  This describes a form of bug sending
> in which the number of dits in a letter is more or less proportional
> to the speed!  No problem, I can copy it.  Or the 'Lake Erie swing',
> also a bug phenomenon, in which you can imagine the operator timing
> his code to the rolling of a ship: "daaaaah di daaaaah dit DAT dah
> didah" (yes, the 'DAT' is intentional).
>
> Thanks to keyers, these phenomena are only rarely heard today, but
> what we do have is operators who run letters and words together.  For
> example, I have a friend whose call apparently begins with "YH" (he is
> in California, see if you can guess what he is trying to send).  
> Run-on word spacing is even worse, leaving my head spinning.
>
> --
> 73,
> Vic, K2VCO
> Fresno CA
> http://www.qsl.net/k2vco
>
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