[CW] A Speed Question

[Richard Knoppow]

    I think the CW decoder programs are the answer. I hear 
contesters ID'ing at very high speeds, maybe fifty or more WPM. 
There are people who can read that but I think many of these 
contests are between machines.

On 11/23/2019 1:07 PM, George Merkle wrote:
> As someone who is working this CQ DX contest for fun, I have 
> scratched my head also about that.  I have to use the CW decode 
> capability on my rig for the really fast ones, and it only works 
> sometimes, mostly on strong signals with no QRM, when those 
> operators like some of the Caribbean ops are sending at 40+ wpm. 
> (Is it ZW5B or ZW46?)  It's certainly more fun to me at readable 
> speeds of below 30, and I only send my signal report at 22-24 
> wpm.  It is a challenge trying to copy some of the stations where 
> 2 or even 3 stations are transmitting within a few hundred 
> hz/cycles of each other.  But when it's at 35+ wpm, I cannot do that!
> 
> Many of the really fast transmissions are just encoded into the 
> rig's memory and then blasted away by merely pushing a button.  
> Takes some of the fun out of it, but if you're trying to maximize 
> points, it's sensible.
> George N0GM
> 
> On Saturday, November 23, 2019, 2:46:48 PM CST, Ron.K3PID 
> <ron.k3pid at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> I’ve been a ham for 58 years. Never got into contesting with the 
> exception of ARRL Field Day with the local club. I was working on 
> the computer this afternoon and listening to 40 meter CW and the 
> clatter of one or another contests and it remains a mystery to me 
> why one would send CQ TEST DE etc at 35 to 40 wpm except perhaps 
> in the final hour of the contest. Isn’t the objective to get as 
> many contacts as possible? Doesn’t 35 wpm exclude a huge segment 
> of the amateur community? I observed several stations calling at 
> high speed for 10 to 15 minutes between responses and wondered if 
> it wouldn’t make more sense to call at say 15 to 20 wpm and maybe 
> double or even triple the odds of a response?
> Maybe that’s why I don’t do contest! Not complaining mind you, 
> just wondering what the theory is?
> Ron K3PID
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