Since LCWO is a huge part of the CWA course I still do my everyday training on LCWO. Minimum is 1x code groups and 5x Plain Text training. Sometimes callsign training and word training as an extra. Personally I have most "difficulties" with the code groups. I train at 25/18 wpm now and score is only about 80-85% and it doesn't matter how many times I do it on a day. It stays on 80-85%. I do Plain Text Training at 25/20 wpm and I score about the same 70-100% depending on the words used and the length of the sentence. Words and callsigns are done at 25/25 and because you can ask for a repeat I most times have only 0-2 faults. I see some progress but not for the code group training.
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I keep track of my homework in the CWops CWA Intermediate. We have had 8 CWA sessions in Teams now. I really enjoy the interaction with the others. Keying and decoding in teams is a challenge since soundcards are not made to let those morsebeeps through. And, this might be a personal experience, it is completely different from training. But it helps not to get uncertain about all the challenges you encounter. It is great to get advice from both PE2V Vincent and PA3GPX Rene. At the course we are at 25/15 wpm but it will soon get faster. I really like training with Morserunner and I'm now training with 22 wpm with success. My goal for CW contests is to be accurate and if I'm not certain I call again for a callsign or a number. Another fun training at the teams session last time was "The Wild Weasel", one of the ops will key at a higher speed and the others have to decode. How fast can you go? We discussed it and I remembered I did one LCWO session with words that ended at 54 wpm.
Anyway, fast CW is fun but is not my goal. CW contesting is fun but is part of the goal. What I want is to be able to ragchew. Normal QSOs at reasonable speed. 25/25 wpm would be ok for me. Will I get to this speed at the end of this year? Time will learn...
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Good morning Bas, I am not sure if this will work for you or not. With me I found that with cw practice, practice and more practice my brain sometime just needs a break for a day or two. It could be just not as much intense practice or a day or two of nothing. With me I found what your are getting at times and that is stuck at a certain point or even going in the opposite direction. It can get frustrating but with me I found it was my brain telling me time for a slow down or stopping for a few days. This really helped me as I was getting upset with myself.
73,
Mike
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Hello Mike, I agree that is hard for the brain. And indeed while this CWA course is going on I get no rest. You need to practice at least an hour a day. So I do. I might take a rest after finishing the course. One day it is going better then another. Wpm rate was 15 but it will go faster to 18 wpm now. For me 25/18 at the moment is my limit. I doubt I will get it at 25/20 wpm. Although I do words and callsigns at 25/25 wpm. The problem is the sentences like in QSOs, that is something I still don't get but it is also what I want. I feel contesting with 25 wpm is no problem at all, and even 30 wpm is going reasonable. But I don't want to use CW only for contesting. 73, Bas
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