I need to get some motivation to retry cw learning... Maybe a 100 days challenge could help š¤
Just 15 or 20 minutes each day with Koch method.
Any candidates here to share progress and motivation on masto?
A new hashtag #CW100days to follow!
I plan to start on Monday (March 20th), you have time to get some info about Koch method.
Maybe with https://lcwo.net/ or Morse trainer app
https://github.com/eoineoineoin/ecwt
RT if you like cw or want to learn it
Niiiice idea of @F1RUM:
A #MorseCode learning group of people who coordinate themselves via the hashtag #CW100days .
CW is a lot of fun! I hope you'll make it and look forward to reading your progress reports!
But honestly, I doubt 100 days of Koch are doable. All relevant characters are probably done in LESS than 100 days. š When all are mastered at speed 12 wpm, Koch ends.
Maybe discipline to never do more than 15 minutes a day can stretch it to 100 days š ?
If you count today as the first day and the last day both in, that last day is June 25, which happens to be a Sunday.
I highly recommend you all agree to meet on shortwave for a CW #CW100days achivement party on June 25 and celebreate!
(Personally, I'll be on my way home from the German #Hamradio_Friedrichshafen faire that day, so sri nil qrv.)
I'm just doing some math here regarding #CW100days :
The international #MorseCode (as defined by IITU-R M.1677-1) lists 55 characters, some not used in #hamradio, some very rarely.
To learn all 55 characters in 100 days, that gives you a little less than two days per character.
So, to start this off, you'd be right on track if mastering 2 different characters by 2023-03-18 (day 1); for Koch method, at speed true 60 cpm = 12 wpm with no additional spacing.
I have a few lines of Python here that say:
55 characters to learn
['a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'f', 'g', 'h', 'i', 'j', 'k', 'l',
'm', 'n', 'o', 'p', 'q', 'r', 's', 't', 'u', 'v', 'w', 'x',
'y', 'z', '0', '1', '2', '3', '4', '5', '6', '7', '8', '9',
'Ć©', '.', ',', ':', '?', "'", '-', '/', '(', ')', '"', '=',
'+', '@', 'error', 'as', 'sk', 'ka?', 'sn?']
2023-03-18 day 1: 2 chars.
2023-03-19 day 2: 3 chars.
...
2023-06-25 day 100: 55 chars.
Jean-Pierre F1RUM
Peter
Andreas, DJ3EI, he/him
Matt Gumbley