[ADXA] 10 Meter Test

[w5zn at w5zn.org]

Thanks for the contest Q Steve!

I was running at 26 WPM.

You are correct. Some of the stations CW sounds like crap. The weighting 
is awful. Some of that, I believe, is from stations maybe running remote 
and latency is kicking in and impacting the sig. They should really 
listen to their sig on another RX to see what it is like.

I can copy fairly well, up to around 35 WPM.....nothing close to His 
Royal High Speed Championshipness Dennis, W5RZ, but I do want to believe 
I can carry his lunch for him on occasion!

ZN


On 2020-12-12 11:17, Steven Rutledge wrote:
> Well, I'm not a contest person except V/U.  I used to do the 10 meter
> test on phone from C6AFP.  That was a lot of fun when the band was
> open.  I have been making Qs in this contest on CW.  I did pass the 20
> wpm test but I have a hard time copying some of these ops.  I'm also
> noticing some of the CW sigs sound very bad in terms of quality.  Not
> sure if that is the extreme speed?  So, getting the call takes me a
> few seconds listening but catching the numbers on DX stations is a
> serious challenge.  My hat is off to you guys that can copy these
> stations that sound like a buzz-saw.
> 
> I was about to turn the rig off last night and made one last sweep
> after turning the amp off.  Who did I hear but W5ZN.  I called him on
> 50 watts.  He came back with N4QQ and I sent again. He got it the
> second time.  Multiplier for me.  Joel's speed was nice, consistent. 
> I hope we get some propagation.  I think I'm in on the 10 meter
> contest in the future.  Lots of fun.
> 
> 73,
> 
> Steve, QQ
> 
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