CW

• 2026-09-03 — Lunchtime CW practice, trying to get the fingers moving right at 25 WPM.
• 2026-08-17 — First time making it over 50 characters in a row at these CW practice settings. Signed up for CW Academy this fall.
• 2026-06-07 — First set of CW paddles, and learning to call CQ in Morse code at 15 WPM.
• 2026-05-18 — CW as a lifestyle: daily Morse practice and POTA hunting, working toward being fully conversational on CW.
• 2025-12-10 — Shifted CW practice strategy toward head copy, aiming to master copying Morse in the head rather than writing it down.
• 2025-08-02 — Daily CW practice with the CW Studio app, working 10-20 WPM while hunting POTA activators.
• 2025-05-21 — QRP CW practice attempt during a Wyoming activation.
• 2025-05-03 — First confirmed POTA CW contact, after months of practice — three years earlier, working CW had seemed impossible.
• 2025-01-29 — Got a Quantum Spectrum DSP gadget and began dedicated daily CW transmit/receive practice.