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Hi all,
New here, impatient to do progress. Only lvl 2 (k m u) but I cannot wait to continue every day.
Tamak

Hi, I started on 16 Dec 2024 now on 17 lesson 20/10 speed. Do not give up!

It took me 1 year 10 months at 20×15 to achieve all 40 characters. I, like you couldn't wait to continue. I found all this hard work was worth it, now head copying with good success, and making hf contacts. I am still attempting to increase speed , building word knowledge...this takes time but imo is magical when it all starts to make sense. Best of luck and welcome to the morse journey.

Welcome on board and enjoy the journey, the most important: have fun along the way.

I've had several goes over the years but started here in earnest spring last year.
Followed Koch lesson until punctuation appeared, which threw me completely.

After that did sort of home brew Koch using Code Groups and custom character set. 3 character group size.

This has been successful, if slow. Now have all letters and digits at 80 - 90% accuracy at 18/7. Plan to add essential punctuation next then start de-Farnsworthing to my target 13/13

Hi all, thanks for the replies. I don't have a plan yet. Since 4 days I don't change de parameters and just pass lev 3 (u k m r) few minutes ago. I have the feeling that if I learn with slow rythm, I may be harder later. I will tell you later if 20/15 (standard parameters) is ok to progress.

Be careful of moving on too quickly at first.

If you are just using short term memory you might stall at exercise 10 or so . . .

YMMV though . . .

cb

Speed is your friend. Don't go so slow, you will be counting dits and dahs, learn the sound, the rythm of the letter. This takes time but once you learn this you can build. If you start to count dits and dahs there will be a barrier between you and your brain and will hinder you greatly. It will be an extra step you just don't need. I cannot say what speed that is for you, but as you stated LCWO starts at 20x15 and there is a very good reason for that.

Watch out now! The 11/11 wpm sockpuppet brigade will be after you in 3...2...1!

Just pass lesson 4 few minutes ago (K U M E R) at 15/20. I'll let you know !

Some of those early ones are quite tough. I certainly had a few 'I'm never going to get this' moments in the early lessons.
Well done.

To be honest I know their is a part of luck in my last try... and I need to get back to previous lessons to strenghten the knowledge !^^

Hi all, I started in november 2024 (again, after several years delay) I am on lesson 29 and my speed is 23/10. I have problems with , . / =. I am practisig daily several attempts for 1 minute. I am sometimes 100% sussesful. Sometimes i have 15% failed, when i lost concentration during attempt.

The exact same thing happened to me with punctuation marks.
My solution was to synthesize Koch with Code Groups feature and Custom Character set, adding characters to the custom set like Koch, but leaving out punctuation, which I will deal with later

MorseMachine was very helpful for me with problematic cases. I used Custom Characters selecting 6 characters: 2 from the troublesome plus 4 easy ones.

Watch out now! The 11/11 wpm sockpuppet brigade will be after you in 3...2...1!

Lol. Very funny but you may be right.

Greg is correct Morse Machine is a great way to weed out pesky difficult characters. In addition I made MP3's with those difficult characters and embedded them in my head by listening to them a lot.

That happens to me occasionally too. I think the problem is not any single character, but a combination of characters, when some combinations prone to cause congestion in your brain show up, you will lose a few letters that you're quite familiar with. Just keep practice and it will go away. If you dare to take my advice, try to slow down to 11/11 wpm ... hi...hi...

Thanks to all for advice. Morse machine lelps.

Get on the air as soon as possible. You will get bored soon enough with any practice. I cannot tell you how many times I stopped doing LCWO because I am not moving as fast as I thought.
If you have time and money, you can try out LICW. The club is really good in helping people get on the air.
HTH

Hello everybody! I'm new too. Doing lesson 12 now (20-10). i dont pass lessons until i have 0% error twice in a day (just a rule that seems to work well for me)
i find custome caracter very helpful too. now using it for L,P,K and R

falling in love with morse :)

0% error! Respect

Airam...0% error is incredible. I consider it a win with 88% accuracy and a real win with 94%. Morse is easy to love, and anything that takes time to understand and relate too usually sticks with you. The fun will really start when you have your characters down and you start making sense of words and sentences. Magical!

I appreciate your encouragement. Thanks Peter and Frank ;)