My quest to learn CW (28)

 And the CW quest goes on...

I take another approach now on LCWO. I deleted all previous training data to view only the data in the stats that I need to see for a specific speed I train on. Above shows the stats for 28/20 wpm code groups I do now. After 62 attemps in the last month I see a very tiny improvement.

I concentrate on the groups, the plain text training, word training (CW abbreviations on 25/25 wpm) and callsign training (speed about 40-42 wpm).

I don't see much improvement in plain text training at 28/22 wpm, it keeps going up and down around the same line. I score a average of 84,2%. I do english sentences since that is the language most used on the HAM bands.

I wish I had some more time to make more CW QSO's. If I have the time, most likely in the early evening, I'm still intimidated by the speed of most stations. I can do a short QSO with a DX station or a POTA/WWFF station. It goes like R GE UR 559 559 TU. But if I do hear some stations calling I'm always afraid they want to exchange more, like name QTH and whatever. I'm afraid of not decoding the important things the opposite station keys. I'm still not ready to do that at a higher speed as 16 wpm or so. I think the only way to improve that is to make skeds with known stations and just have a chat without worrying to make errors. In reality I see that most of my DX contacts are with FT8, the lazy mode. Although I try to break the CW pile-ups which is not easy with the bad propagation lately. I managed at least a 20m CW contact with CY0S.

I also managed to make some VBand QSOs which are easier to do, although keying on the computer feels different to keying on the radio. I have the idea sometimes there is kind of a delay (lag) which makes it more difficult. However, the ops on VBand are always very patient and kind which makes it encouraging to do your best.