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Thanks Craig for letting me join. Also noted your recent 350+ CpM RufzXp on your blog, congrats.

Why I joined:

I am currently doing ok in RufzXp but would like to reduce errors.

On a typical run I oscillate between 220..270 with about 50% of calls copied correctly on 1st try.

I am hoping to increase the number of correct calls - I am not concerned about increasing speed (I am excercising for Ham purposes not competition)

Not sure if the accuracy will come on its own by simply continuing to excercise?

Any hints appreciated.

73,

Gerd.

Hi Gerd,

I understand you guys are getting a cold blast in Europe; stay warm.

Currently spending some time trying to organize a trip to FJ/FS/PJ8 for one of the CW DX Tests in the upcoming year. Today is a "REST" day for me so I am not doing cw today which gives me time to prepare for the trip.

You made the statement "I am hoping to increase the number of correct calls - I am not concerned about increasing speed".

So it appears that you and I have different goals and therefore a total different approach. I am only interested in "increasing speed" right now and in time the mistakes that I make copying call signs will take care of themselves.

In re-reading your post, since you want to copy a large number of calls without errors; I would reduce your starting speed substantially so that your error rate goes down.

Since you are not interested in your score or top speed and only interested in being 100 percent error free.

I don't know why you would want to do this though because you are not pushing yourself to increase your speed and may get stuck at a possible lower speed for a long period of time.

Craig, AH8DX

Gerd,

I would keep doing what you are currently doing always pushing yourself. With enough practice over time, your call sign error rate will decrease.

Craig, AH8DX

Graig,

I met some excellent CW ops in a recent M/2 attempt in 2010 CQWWCW. Learned a lot from them - amongst other that I need to do more daily training ;-)

My aim is the same as yours but for contest use I need to keep an eye on accuracy to score ok. You are right that low speed only excercises won't do the trick.

As for RufzXp I did an interesting score jump by 20% to 24k points by simply taking a relaxed approach to listening?!?

HNY to you and may your high speed CW wishes come true.

Regards,

Gerd.

Gerd,

Which M/2 in the 2010 CQWWCW were you a part of?

Part of my recent success is that I discovered that 40wpm plays an important role in the world of HST. 40wpm is the start of very high speed cw, right? So therefore without continuing to work at 40wpm, the higher speeds mean nothing. You could sit there and listen to call signs at 100wpm all day and night long every day of the year and it would mean nothing because you have nothing to decipher.

Make 40wpm part of your daily routine along with the higher speeds you are trying to get to and the higher speeds now mean something.

Do you think an athlete always sprints at top speed every day?

NO. Everyday the sprinter joggs in the morning. Some day's, working at 50%, an increasing number of days working at 75% to build up to two days before an event where the sprinter is doing top speed sprints so that when Friday comes and the sprinter needs to do his/her best; he/she is ready to set a new sprinting speed.

Recognize your personal ceiling for now and compliment yourself for getting to that point because in time you will make another dash towards the finish line.

One way for you to work at 40wpm in a relaxed mode is to do MorseRunner by clicking on RUN and then Single Calls. Click on 40wpm for your speed with NO band conditions.

This will keep you relaxed because it is not a pile-up and there is not all of that garbage band condition stuff in your ears. Turn your volume down to a point where you are copying full calls with no mistakes and really let your ears WORK. Try to copy full calls and not partials.

Add this to your cw practice regiment.

Craig, AH8DX

Gerd,

Since you like cw contesting, here is something you may have done already but if you haven't, do so.

You see how MorseRunner has their Function keys programmed?

In you favorite contest logging program, make sure your Function keys are layed out the same. This way, in the contest, your fingers will automatically go to the correct F keys because you have trained yourself.

There is nothing worse I suppose to go to somebody else's station to operate a test and the F keys are totally different from the way that you memorized them.

Your contesting productivity will increase which will gain you some extra points.

In late February for the ARRLDX CW Test, I will throw myself to the wolves being on the rx end of the dx pile-up. I sure hope I am ready!

I am excited and looking forward to see what will happen to my Rufz attempts after operating a 48 hour cw test. Not just the days following the test, but weeks and months afterwards.

Craig, AH8DX