CW Newbie Tries out POTA for the 3rd Time

Fantastic job, Jonathan! Way to go! I love your advice at the end, too: It's not as bad as you think. Just be willing to send question marks and the other side is going to work with you. We've all been there. You'll find that your CW skills will start to rocket now. Actually getting on the air allows your brain to "do its thing" and your skills improve by orders of magnitude. Oh, and thank you for the shout-out. I'm happy to have even played a small role in your CW journey! Excellent video. Keep up the great work! Cheers, Thomas K4SWL

This is the only way to do it! Get out there and muddle through a few activations and before you know it your at 25wpm! Great video and good work.

Hi Jon .. I'm an old ham. Congrats you are doing really well. Enjoy yourself in the hobby and I hope you have many enjoyable years and much fun with cw.

Wow! Great job my friend and being only a beginner I think you will catch the interest of newbees faster than an old hand like me. Its exciting to see all you’ve done in a short time and though I’ve been a ham 52 years, Have never done POTA so you’ve motivated me to give it a try. I do like to set upp portable just for fun and see who I get so maybe POTA will be in my future. Will definitely listen out for you. Really like how you do your videos, and being totally blind, your discriptions help a lot. Thanks for spreading the good word about CW. 73 Dave W4CI

Om you are no newbie anymore! You do great! 73

Great on the CW...a true ham !

Master that rig, and you’ve proven yourself a true field operator. Great video.

Hey buddy, I've watched K4SWL a lot and this video style is quite nice. Looking forward to your future adventures.

Nice vid! I’m starting out on CW myself on my own channel. I have to say though you’re doing much better than me! Keep up the great work! See you on the air.

What a GREAT video! You rock! That is so fun watching the whole process. I’m almost ready to go for it!!

Great video! Hope to be able to do the same soon. I've also used Morsemachine, was very helpful. And the QCX-mini is my favourite!

Great video. Thank you for sharing your experience and advice. 73

Another Jonathan here on a CW journey, you're doing a million times better than I am haha brilliant job that is! Cheers for the video - VK4ALE

This was awesome! Congrats!

Good work!

Very inspiring and a great job. I watch Thomas Weatherspoon as well, so now I'll be watching out for you. Thx 73

FB, Jon! I'm close to taking the plunge myself to get back on the air with CW. I got up to about 18 wpm 30 yrs ago and I've been inactive for a long time now. Your speed is about what I'm capable of now watching ham videos. I watch K4SWL quite a bit and I can copy most of it about 20 wpm but I'd have to get some repeats just like you are doing here. I just signed up to get your notifications, so I'll see more in the future, I'm sure. TU de KA8VLW, Ken, Michigan

I am a real beginner and your video is inspiring, it shows that you do not have to be perfect to start and that hams are quite patient repeating their call sign when asked ;) also interesting to see who in the pileup you pick depending on the strength of the signal and on who calls a with a little delay compared to the other and therefore ends to be the only that can be heard :)

Love this little rig. Great video, looking forward to see more of your activations. 73!

Awesome video! I have the same transceivers and am still learning cw. Thanks for the motivation!