I agree with you there Bob. I know my CW speed jumped when I worked
the high level CW nets (EAN) and suddenly HAD to copy fast and
accurate! I think in a few weeks I went from 20 to 29 wpm, my limit
for printing each character. There was no way I was going to keep
asking for fills.
It was, however, many years later until I finally broke away from
printing and started copying in my head. IMO, when you get at the
35-40 wpm level, CW totally changes and starts to become more like a
normal person to person conversation.
Unfortunately, I was off the air for a dozen years and have not regained
that speed.
On a different topic you mentioned, I HATE Farnsworth. Yes, maybe it's
a good way for people to learn but they fail to transistion to sending
proper code. There are too many people sending Farnsworth on the air
and it is improper and sloppy code. It's a shortcut to doing things
right and it has a high penalty.
Ken WA8JXM
On 12/6/15 3:00 AM, Robert Harmon wrote:
but to really increase your copying
speed you need to spend some time exercising your copying abilities each
day by practice copying ONLY at speeds faster than you can comfortably
copy. You wont increase your copying speed by always copying at the
same comfortable speeds. Practice at a speed where you are only able to
copy one or two characters in each word. Concentrate !!
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