It's now officially 2 years ago that I started with these posts about my quest to learn CW. From the start on I wrote it will at least take 3 years to master this. I'm on my way and make progress.
I now manage to do plain text training with a speed of 30/22 wpm and still score 100% for most of it. Although it depends on what words are used and how long the sentence is.
With the same speed I do one lesson per day on code groups...random letters/numbers
The problem is that it gets difficult to type random letters/numbers. Accuracy about 50-80%, not that I can't decode but I'm not fast enough typing, at least that's what I like to think ;-) I also do code groups with numbers at the same speed.
In that case it is only 10 keys. Score is about 80-100%. I loose concentration after 5-6 rows of numbers and I mess up. Need to do a few more to get used to the speed.
With the upcoming CQWW CW contest I train with Morserunner as well. A lot of fun. I wasn't aware there is another version around which also features different contests and more things to to setup. Search for Morserunner community edition if you like a copy.
I learned about this morserunner edition from PA4O Peter one of my neighbour stations. Peter is currently active as PJ5C at Saint Eustatius Island. Together with Ad PE6Q they are planning an nice effort in the CQWW CW contest. I'm running with a speed of 25 wpm now in blocks of 5 minutes single station. I don't do very well. I still don't get the calls first time which costs me speed. I hope to improve this week, only a few days to go. By the way I will use my contest call PA6G, I should change that in morserunner.
CW contesting is totally different from a "normal" CW QSO. A contest operator does not operate a real key but let the computer keyer transmit. The only thing the operator needs is copying skill and fast reaction.
