[ADXA] Wild & Crazy Guys

Sat Jun 8 09:11:17 EDT 2024

We've gotta get some young folks doing RUFZ and Make America Great for CW
Again.

If you slice and dice the RUFZ toplist enough ways, I'm finally in there at
#123 among senior males under 160# weight and 5"-7" height.  My peak back
then was 289 CPM or 57.8 WPM. This must have been 20 years ago. I tried
RUFZ again a couple years ago and peaked out at 243 CPM or 48.6 WPM. So
I've lost 10 WPM.

https://www.rufzxp.net/

I can't imagine those incredible speeds. I'd like to witness it sometime.
(Well, I guess I should go to YouTube then,eh?)

For me, when the speed goes much above 60 WPM, I not only can't pick out
any words, I can't even say for sure that what I'm hearing is Morse.

I won a copying contest at the LR hamfest at about 50 WPM. But I didn't
have to compete against Dennis because he was helping put the thing on.

A dit at 220 WPM lasts 5.5 ms.  The period of an 800 Hz tone is 1.25 ms. So
a dit would last about 4.4 complete sine waves. How can anyone detect that?

My comfortable QSO speed is about 23 WPM. For contests, about 26 WPM
although that's just a sending limitation. (I still like to use my paddle.)

It's fun talking CW.

73 & dit dit,

Nick, WA5BDU

On Fri, Jun 7, 2024 at 7:33 PM Stan Stockton <wa5rtg at gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> It’s interesting to look at the top 100 list on RUFZ.  I think I counted
> 59 of the top 100 from Belarus (!) and a large number of the SWL
> callsigns.  Not a single W/VE in the list.
>
> Stan,K5GO
>
> On Jun 7, 2024, at 6:54 PM, Dennis Schaefer <dennisw5rz at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 
> That was a long time ago.  I remembered it as 50 WPM and I generally have
> some issues at 60.  I know Nick is fast and 60 is a nice round number so
> I’m not going to be too adamant about it.  Whatever it was, I think we had
> the best Field Day CW team around!
>
> On Fri, Jun 7, 2024 at 8:05 AM J. Setcer <j.setcer at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Dennis, I was There watching, at the "County Line "CW Shoot out at High
>> Noon"" (CAREN club hamfest) when you and WA5BDU both successfully copied
>> SIXTY WPM.
>> As my memory serves me. The guy conducting the contest said: "I'm out of
>> cassette tapes. That was the fastest one I had". You & Nick Kennedy shook
>> hands and that was the end of it.
>> The NEXT year They put you in charge of Administering the contest, mostly
>> so you would not be eligible to complete.
>> - QJ
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 7, 2024 at 7:14 AM Dennis Schaefer <dennisw5rz at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> We are definitely used to instant gratification.  Back in the good old
>>> days, I had to walk three miles in the snow to check my mailbox for cards
>>> from Box 88 in Russia.  Response time to my requests was usually a year or
>>> two.
>>>
>>> The main reason I finally uploaded to QRZ was that a lot of people like
>>> their awards or like to see matches there for some other reason.  I guess I
>>> shouldn’t have been a holdout for so long, since it’s really just a few
>>> mouse clicks.  Now someone needs to convince me to set up eQSL - or not.
>>>
>>> Lotw will be back soon enough, and I’ll be again uploading for the “real
>>> awards”.
>>>
>>> I think ARRL is on top of things and cooperating with law enforcement,
>>> etc.  I’m more worried about my health insurance getting cyber-attacked
>>> like one big company did.  They have enough problems with just normal
>>> operations.
>>>
>>> I’m still waiting for someone to explain whether that kid can really
>>> copy CW at 220 WPM.  I suspect Lotw will be back online way before I can
>>> reconcile 220 WPM in my mind.
>>>
>>> Dennis/RZ
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jun 7, 2024 at 5:25 AM <w5znjoel at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> ADXA Folks,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I loved Steve Martin when he appeared on Saturday Night Live back in
>>>> the “good days of comedy” with skits like the two “wild and crazy guys” he
>>>> and Dan Aykroyd would portray. That phrase fits all of the “wild and
>>>> crazy” rumors I keep hearing about LoTW and that our data and DXCC records
>>>> are lost and gone forever.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I have no insight into the details of ARRL’s cyber attack but I do read
>>>> the press releases they continue to publicly send out and on several
>>>> occasions they have stated your LoTW data and DXCC records are safe and
>>>> secure. The most recent info that addressed this was in an ARRL member
>>>> bulletin sent out last night that you should have received if you are an
>>>> ARRL member……..and YOU must be to be an ADXA member !!!! That bulletin
>>>> stated, regarding LoTW:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> *“Many of our services and programs have been impacted by this attack.
>>>> We have been diligently assessing each system to ascertain the extent of
>>>> compromise. For example, while the Logbook of The World® server and related
>>>> user data were unaffected, we have taken the precautionary measure of
>>>> keeping the service offline until we can ensure the security and integrity
>>>> of our networks. Similarly, access to Online DXCC is unavailable, although
>>>> individual award data remains secure.”*
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I have no expertise in cyber crimes and have to use spell check to make
>>>> sure I spell it correctly, but I do have quite a bit of experience with
>>>> ARRL and as a 53 year member (and past President) I can assure you they are
>>>> addressing the issue and bringing services back on line when it is safe and
>>>> ready to go. Just please be patient. Yes, I’m going through LoTW withdrawal
>>>> as well but let’s stand by a bit longer and allow ARRL, the subject matter
>>>> experts, and law enforcement professionals they are working with continue
>>>> to work through this.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> In the meantime, we ADXA folks have much more important things worry
>>>> about and do like “GET IN THERE AND WORK ‘EM”. That way, when LoTW is back
>>>> on line you will have something to upload !!!!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 73 Joel W5ZN
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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