Sunday, August 31, 2025

My quest to learn CW (21)

 My quest continues.


Try do do my daily CW training but due to circumstances I'm not always able to log in at LCWO. However I do practice everyday some days multiple times.

Concentrating on decoding sentences I do the normal course once a day. Still 25/18 wpm is too fast for me. 80% accuracy is one of the best scores. However when I train plain text training on 26/20 wpm my rate is higher.


The goal is to make QSOs of course, Well, that's another story. I made some QSOs in Sweden as SM/PE4BAS/P. And yes it worked out. But I had help from the CW decoder in the (tr)uSDX. I don't have that with the IC-7300 and I refuse to run a CW decoder on the computer. Without the decoder I have to rely on my own brain and that makes me less confident. Yes, I hear stations calling but am afraid I will not be able to understand what they key as soon as I call them. I also tried to call CQ on 16 wpm to hopefully get an answer with the same speed. But so far this didn't work out. Well, I struggle but that is normal I guess. I just continue with it.... I'm shure at some moment in the future I will get it.

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