

You need to keep using it in order to stay proficient but you don’t really lose it all. This was not due to lack of interest, from what I can tell, but lack of time.

I passed the test 1st time out because of the work that he put in.Įver since I got licensed after passing the 5 words per minutes code requirement, I did not touch it again. A local ham who is SK now bent over backwards to help me learn morse code by sending to me over the air and allowing me to use tapes that he had to practice copying. I was always told it is better to try and practice at 13 word per minute as you can pick it up better with the right spacing but I never made it that far. To upgrade to General, you had to learn 13 words per minute and to upgrade to the Extra Class, you had to learn 20 words per minute. In order to get my first license (Technician Plus) with HF privileges, I had to learn morse code at a level of 5 words per minute.
