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Is it common to get amental block. I have religiously put in the 1 hour a day since August and I am upto 15wpm on letters and figures. When I go mixed I cannno get consistency even down at 7wpm. These last 3 days I feel I am losing speed.

Is this normal or am I too tired ?

Mike

Hi Mike,
That looks normal to me maybe because it still happens to me sometimes.
What I do in those circumstances is to go "away" from CW a couple of days, so that my brain have a rest in terms of "dih" or "dahs".
And when I come back, atfer a couple of trials, I recover almost all the speed I used before leaving, which is encouraging.
GL !

Thanks Testronan ,I will have day off and see what happens. may thanks for taking the time to be helpful.

Mike

Np Mike. I'm still in the learning phase too, and I just jumped into the air for the very first time yesterday on 40m. What a thrill ! I wonder now why I've been that anxious, everything went quite smoothly, depiste some mistakes, the guys I contacted were just GREAT with me, HI;
73
GL
Ronan

Well done Ronan this is what I am aiming for. I bet your confidence boost will help in the learning especially if you get more regular contacts on the air.

I passed the morse to get my licencse about 20 years ago and my intent was always to pursue the morse and I never did. I have been out of the hobby for over 16 years and now I have returned I am determined to make CW my preferred mode. I cannot wait to get to the level where I can read in my mind as with the spoken word. I am 57 now and apart from this recent mental block my age does not seem to have slowed me down yet.

73's
Mike

Hi Mike,
The WE has passed, and log is getting full of CW QSO's now here. Some QSO's were made by just answering to "quick" pile-ups (QRQ for me, but could get my call and 5nn as the answer....no need to make long conversations), others like local rag-chewing. And this has been done despite of my typing speed (I'd say in the 18-20wpm max).
I do hope your "CW break" went OK and that you are now ready to continue? 57 is still a YOUNG age for sure !!!!!!!!
Training is the way to go. But we must avoid brain saturation and this kind of "no CW" periods are sometimes usefull to reach the next step.
73
ronan

Congratulations! You made the next step and feel free to do this as often as you like. You will get more and more familiar with it. No sweat, no pain only fun!

73, Mike

Hi Mike,

That was hard indeed, stressing, shaking fist, mental confusion (was it a "h" or a "5"? a "4" or a "V", etc). But yes indeed, almost a week after, I already feel more comfortable. My speed increased "a bit", but my mistakes ratio decreased a lot. I still need more fluidity, but this is coming slowly.
Now, about half of the QSO's I hear are still too fast for me and I can not understand 50% of them. I can catch some words here and there, like "name", "rst", "73", "hpe cuagn" but I still have difficulties to get'em all, HI. ...But when the guy transmits at my speed, this is fine, most of the time (More than 90% of the QSO is ok, which makes me say my TX speed is OK too).
Still need to train here, HI !

What about you Mike, G0NEY? Any good news from the original thread "mental block"? Is it unblocked now? HI
73 !
Ronan

Hi Ronan,

Yes much improved psychologically and more relaxed. I have extended the group send time to 3 minutes using mixed characters and am achieveing certainly over 80% copy with an effective speed of 9wpm tonight. I am going to continue listening at this level until i get the over 90% andthen try higher speed for shorter durtion.

I am inspired by your sucess and pushing to get there soon.

I guess the key is to keep the fun factor high and enjoy as much as you can get , I am going to let the speed happen with time.

Mike

Hi Mike,
I'm glad if, at my level, I can somehow push you. But you said it all by saying "keep the fun factor high".
Do not feel desperate when hearing QSO's at a "too high speed", there will always be people quicker than you, even after years of CW, HI! I didn't jump into a T6 pile-up on 40m yesterday evening, simply because I could only get "T6" in his call after 20min listening...To QRQ for me! This may be a way to reduce pile-up size, HI.

I do prefer a slow QSO well done than a quick one with too many mistakes, but this is my personal point of view.
As beginners, we don't need to (and realistically can not) impress others by our speed, and we can not comepte in such QRQ situations. This only thing we can show is our willingness to "do it well". So yes we may miss "things", but that's just fun, that's just a hobby, there is nothing dramatic in there.

So indeed, keep it fun, go on training like you do and please come back here to let us know where you are in a few days or weeks,
73 !
Ronan