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Josh:
I think you'll find most cw ops will have no issue with slowing down for you, but staying in the novice parts of the cw segments will keep you from creating HAM chaos. Even the dx stas will slow down for you, you just have to catch them on the right split, a lot of dx works split and move around as they listen, so copy some dx in progress to get the feel for how to operate split.

I think the trick is to use the farnsworth method of learning cw, copy/send at 20wpm but with 10 or 5wpm spacing.

BoomboxDX:
I used to hear plenty of slow (5-12 wpm) CW on the tech/novice portion of 40 meters almost on a nightly basis. I know there are slow key nights. There is some slow key CW organization that has them periodically.

Looking-Glass:
In Australia and New Zealand there are low speed CW groups with on air sessions to improve your send/receive speeds.

There are two regular groups on 40 and 80m certain nights of the week Australian time.

Also there used to be one on 10m but haven't heard it for years as propagation hasn't been good.

Your local amateur radio club should steer you in the right direction. :)

Ticom:
If you have a local buddy you are practicing CW with, the higher HF bands (15m, 17m, 12m, 10m) are usually dead at night for DX work, but work OK for local contacts on groundwave. I was always partial towards 15 because my 40m dipole loaded up on there just fine.

In general the old Novice sub-bands on HF are probably your best bet for a slow speed CW QSO, and there are enough old timers on there who will slow down for you, or CW beginners who are no faster than you are.

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