[ADXA] I did something I thought I’d never do today…… also, who can copy 220 WPM

[Dennis Schaefer]

I uploaded 25k QSOs to QRZ.   I’ve always thought Lotw was the only online
system I needed to support.  It has good security for user uploads and
supports the awards that matter.   I think I signed up for eQSL once but
couldn’t really see the point.   Why does QRZ even have a logbook, I
wondered?  They have a system of awards, but anyone could do that.  Maybe
eHAM.net does, too - I don’t know and I don’t care.

I guess I just needed to upload something.  I decided that Lotw isn’t
really a logbook, and maybe there would be some advantage to uploading
everything to QRZ and seeing what it would do for me.  A lot of people
think you’re terrible if you don’t at least upload to Lotw, QRZ, Clublog,
and eQSL.  That attitude is part of what limited my uploads to Lotw and
Clublog.

It was pretty easy to tell DXKeeper to send everything to QRZ and now I am
there.  Will I upload to eQSL?  Probably not, but who knows what might
happen.

Come back, Lotw - we need you!

On another note, I saw a video featuring our friend Adrian.  He was helping
a 12 year old demonstrate copying random call signs on RUFZ at 220 WPM.
Not 220 Characters, 220 Words!  I’ve never seen anyone sit and copy
anything over 60 WPM.  I think I have copied ONE callsign at 60 in RUFZ.
How could someone do over three  times that?   A freaky savant kind of
mental ability?  Can the human ear even distinguish three dits from four at
that speed?  Is it possible to memorize all the possible call signs in the
RUFZ database and what they sound like?  I’m not world class, but it is
sobering to realize there are kids who can do three times better.  Or is
there some kind of “trick” to it that I’m not seeing?

73,
Dennis/RZ
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