[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

Sun Nov 9 20:33:09 2003

In a message dated 11/9/03 6:21:27 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
[email protected] writes:

> Lou, W7DZN, and I were chatting about that the other night. He agreed that
> it's very unusual for a QSO at 25+ wpm to go without a "fluffed" character
> every so often, but those contest exchanges go on and on without a burp.
> Highly suspicious<G>. 

Not really. Contest exchanges are highly repetitious. If I had a dollar for 
every time I've sent "A N2EY 67 EPA" in SS.....

> 
> I've sometimes wondered if I got out my bug, purposely sent extra long
> dashes, and jumped into a contest just how many other ops would give up -
> not because CW with the wrong element spaces is all THAT hard to copy, but
> because the automated code readers would be printing gibberish <G>. 

I don't know anybody who uses an automated code reader in a contest. Too 
error prone. 

> 
> While I can send at 25 or 30 WPM for long periods of time, it's W-O-R-K
> compared to 20 wpm and I do make a lot more mistakes. So I loaf along, more
> ops can follow me, and I don't have to put so much effort into it <G> 
> 

I don't really know how fast I'm going with my bugs. I match the other guy 
and let it go at that. Sometimes I'll Farnsworth rather than move the weight. 

Just my experiences.

73 de Jim, N2EY

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