Wednesday, September 30, 2026

My quest to learn CW (34)

 

Time is my enemy. But I try to practice CW everyday. With the speed going up it is like starting all over again. How many days will it take to get at 88% or above again?


The random 5 characters per line in 1 minute training for accuracy is with 28/22 wpm even more difficult. I noticed I got about 20 faults average. But once I was lucky and got only 5 faults. Good days and bad days!

I had some interesting CW QSOs this month. Most intriguing was with VE3SPY. I was intending to do a short QSO just before dinner. But the operator kept asking. After the QSO and dinner I search for him on QRZ. An amazing story... and now I know why the SPY.

I had a short discussion about CW contesting with top CW contester PA4O  on a club evening last friday. I told him I wanted to focus on contesting a little more especially for the CQWW CW in November. He recommended rufzXP training software to me as that is what he does training with. I have been doing rufzXP before and last weekend I tried a few times again, a lot of fun!

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