What Are Your CW Goals? Setting Realistic Expectations
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Tonight we talk with the group about setting CW goals. What are your CW goals?
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MST is Monday, CWOPs is Wed and Thur is the ultimate speed game NCCC which is sprint format.
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Been on Morse training for 11 days. Started from only knowing S and O my whole life. Anyway, my goal is to be 25wpm in a couple of months. If I don’t make it, oh well. I’ll keep trucking. I’m currently at 25wpm, but 6wpm Farnsworth. Today, I push that to 15wpm Farnsworth, and get my brain really working.
Practice every day is the key!
CW Goals, this year: 1) Increased copy speed. 2) Find an NTS Net and Become active Radio Gram sending.
Awesome!
I think my goal is to make 10 CW POTA activations by July 4. I've done some CW during my SSB activations, but never did a complete CW activation.
That's a good goal to have!
Goals need to be set with a deadline, no open ended goals. Then those goals must be based on how much time you are willing to spend and then add 20% to push yourself. Then track and update your goals on a monthly basis. Also give your self rewards.
Agreed.
Funny yall came out with this now for me.. I just posted about a week ago about me completely bombing my first cw qso.. I'm starting my second month of learning.. I copy ok.. Send better than copy and practice pretty regularly ... But for some reason my first try at answering someone's CQ I completely froze up. Like my brain and my hand wouldn't work together. Even though I practiced exactly what I was gonna send.. They couldn't get all my callsign. So they sent a ?.. After that I was all to pieces. Couldn't even send my call sign correctly after that. I literally just left silence. Poor op probably thought a kid had gotten a hold of his dad's key lol.. But yall saying 3 months before making a contact makes me feel good cause I have made at least 3 good complete ones. But have flubbed at least 3 also to the point it's like man I can't do this.. So yall make me feel time is definitely key no matter my goals I've set fir myself. It'll come.
My primary goal has been be be able to relax while doing a CW POTA activation.
Did my first CW activation this weekend, about 11 months since I began trying to learn. It was certainly not comfortable.
I hadn't planned on doing CW only but the SSB DX Contest, a laptop failure in the field, and my family being ready to leave meant if I wanted a complete activation I'd have to spot myself CW.
Copy wasn't too much of a problem, it was sending that I failed at. I simply could not get my timing right.
Each of the 7 hunters who came back to me were patient, stuck with me, dealt with my poor sending, sent their calls again as needed and I got my first CW only activation.
The awkward first one is out of the way, I know I can so next time will be better right?
Yes, I copy faster when I'm relaxed.
You're supposed to have goals?
LOL!
thanks for the kind words and shout out. DE W4EMB
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Sounds good. @@AA0Z