Hello Jim, that someone else was me on the reflector topic I created …
You replied on that thread but went on to create a new topic (this one).
We do need some context about my original request for advice because, in reply to Guru @EA2IF, you wrote …
Maybe you just looked at my topic title and didn’t read my original post or the subsequent posts because SOTA is relevant here. After 25 years of transcripting everything to paper, I want to end up writing down only those things I need for my paper log (callsigns, reports, names …) and head copy the rest - so I can’t throw that pencil away.
And this is for use at windy SOTA summits using my QRP radio with sub-optimal portable antennas straining to hear weak signals and where high speed Morse (30+ wpm) is not often used for obvious reasons.
So, you see it’s not going from 100% copy-to-paper to 100% copy-to-brain. For a typical SOTA QSO it’s probably an 80%/20% mixture of the two. After practising head copying for 3 months now I’ve gone from about 5wpm to 18wpm and hope to be in the 20-25wpm range by the summer.
Thanks for your comments and advice.
73 Andy G8CPZ