The CWops CW Academy Intermediate course has started. First of all we had a meeting to introduce ourselves and to check the audio on teams. Participants PE2V Vincent (advisor), PA3GPX René (co-advisor), PA8E Jim, PA3KL Kees, PA1DI Dick and me of course. It is nice to meet other HAMs that want to learn CW and hope we can have a lot of interaction online and may be on air later. Audio is a strange thing, I had some problems with the audio of my keyer. The mike I use seems not be sensitive for CW tones although I switched of noise reduction. With a speaker into the headphones jack output and close to the mike it was better. After the meeting I tweaked it a bit but a better solution would be a direct connection from the radio to the mic in of the computer. I'm thinking about a simple solution.
After a long time of training on LCWO with a speed of 30/22 wpm I don't see any improvement. So I went back to a more comfortable speed now. 30/15 is on the edge of 80-90% copy. I think it's a good start for the new year. Hopefully it will improve in the next 6 weeks of training.
I try to make as many CW QSOs as possible although a "real" QSO is still a disaster. I can't copy everything and although speed is not really the problem the words are just not getting into my head yet. The only thing I can do is just continue and make as many QSOs as I can.
Hey Bas, I’m just in AWE of your success and progress in such a short space of time. Well done my man! 👌
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Tom, tnx very much. I think it takes a awful lot of time. Over 2 years of learning now and still unable to make a decent QSO. That's why I finally take this training. A QSO is totally different from what they do at POTA, WWFF or contest QSOs. 73, Bas
DeleteGood morning Bas....and now the fun begins! Take the CWops training one day at a time, it does take time out of your day but they know what they are doing. I am sure that once you have completed this training you will be shocked how far you have come.
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Hello Mike, tnx for the comment. I really hope I will learn a lot from this training. I already started with the homework, did the first 2 days. It starts slowly (in my opinion) but soon it will get faster. I really hope everything is working out as expected. I love CW but it's hard to learn. 73, Bas
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