Another week of amateur radio has expired. Expired Ham, get it? 🙂
Welcome to another issue of Expired Ham, a weekly newsletter where I discuss the ways I participated in the amateur radio hobby this week.
As we welcome in a new season tomorrow, let’s hope that there are more days made available to get outside and enjoy more comfortable temperatures.
This week was rather uneventful for me from a ham radio perspective. I wasn’t able to do any on-air work, though, as always, I practiced my CW skills everyday. We are half way through our 8-week CWops Academy Intermediate course and things are going quite well. The curriculum has us moving up from 13 WPM to 15 WPM copy speeds this coming week. Coming into this course, I thought I was already copying up to 20 WPM or thereabouts, but that was just character speed apparently. When you factor in Farnsworth spacing, my effective copy speed was closer to 13 or so at best. So, this class curriculum has been helping me push the limits a bit and get me to copying faster code. By the end of this course, I should be copying at 20 WPM or more effective speed.
I’m going to keep this one short since there wasn’t much ham activity for me over the last several days. Take care everyone and thanks for stopping by. I’ll see you again next week.
73,
Matthew, K2MAS
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