Let’s face it, I will never be a good head copy CW operator. Yes, I hear certain words and abbreviations as a language, but not enough to carry on a real conversation. In fact, I form far more words in my head than understand as a language. So, I resort to the pencil and paper. At that point a real meaningful rag chew becomes work. Therefore, I am close to giving up. Either work only stations requiring a short bit of information* exchange or learn how to crochet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
* I mean a little more than the normal CW exchange of RST, name and QTH. Topics with familiar words such as equipment used is doable and welcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Let’s face it, I will never be a good head copy CW operator. Yes, I hear certain words and abbreviations as a language, but not enough to carry on a real conversation. In fact, I form far more words in my head than understand as a language. So, I resort to the pencil and paper.\u2026 Continue Reading ‘You can’t teach an old dog new tricks!’<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-operating"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3334"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3349,"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3334\/revisions\/3349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}