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In particular, many operators who use bugs send code with fast closely-spaced dits and relatively-long dahs. These days probably most code is formed by keyers, which form individual characters perfectly, but you'll also hear people sending code with straight keys and bugs, which can have very different timing. If you listen on the air, you'll hear Morse QSOs at a wide range of speeds. The continually QRS will slow efficient communication just as quickly if not more so then the poor discipling of timing/spacing. While you maybe competent to transmit at 20wpm if the receiver can only decode 5wpm that is all you can send. Yet you can only transmit as fast as the receiver can decode. Listening to clearly articulated 5wpm may be frustrating because you can decode much faster. The most important thing to remember in the discipline of CW, its always about the ability of the decoder. Sloppy timing increases both errors in decoding and frustration for the decoder. Anyone listening will enjoy exchanging information with you.

The goal then, learning to encode CW with metronomic precision. Everything about CW is proper timing/spacing. You are probably aware there are a couple different methods, Koch Farnsworth Paris and others.

CW is all about timing, the accuracy in timing should take precedence over speed. One can see how the ability to decode CW will quickly outpace the ability to encode CW.Įncoding CW by nature of mechanical transfer is much slower when doing it by hand. This applies specifically to the “Q” code shorthand such as QRV QRZ QRM QRA and so on. Progressing in that thought, it is more efficient to recognize how common or repetitive words sound i.e., rhythmically. It is more efficient to recognize how each symbol “sounds” rather than counting dits and dah’s. The principle being to process a combination of sounds reflexively not analytically, as you stated in your initial post. Learning CW, I was taught to associate the DIT, DAH and REST as music, both in tempo and beat. You reference decoding yet refer to encoding guidelines. There are two distinct elements, encoding and decoding. I find nothing on my problem, but I worry slightly I might be doing work I'll have to redo later.ĬW is an interesting discipline. Many guides give warnings like '5 wpm and 20 wpm are different skills, so learn the right one'. I can't decode longer texts at 30 wpm without longer spaces between the words, but I know it's common to learn with letters at high speed with gaps between them, and maybe this could be effective by a similar logic. My question is: Should I try to practice more at the slower 20 wpm, or can i just go on practicing at becoming more confident at 30+ wpm, and hope the slower speed will come naturally later? Now here's the thing: I find the easiest speed to hear is somewhere at 30+ wpm, while the 20 wpm words are harder by comparison! At 20 wpm, I hear dits and dah's, and I just can't 'hear' the separate units as easily. I've heard that it's good to learn at a 'high' speed, like 20 wpm to get the feel for how each symbol sounds rather than counting dits and dah's.

I use this rather than the exercises with random characters, both because it's more fun to hear words and because a hand injury makes it hard to type fast enough. I've been learning to decode cw for a while now, mainly by using the Word training feature of.

Cw contest practice software