[Elecraft] Slow Code Watering Holes?

Stephen W. Kercel kercel1 at suscom-maine.net
Tue Jun 27 17:50:36 EDT 2006


Pete:

Good idea. We'll definitely try it next time.

73

Steve
AA4AK


At 04:35 PM 6/27/2006, wd4lst at alltel.net wrote:
>Three field days ago, I was getting frustrated with all of the fast 
>cw myself. after about midnight local, when the initial rush had 
>settled down, I tuned to the upper edge of 40 cw (~7060), found an 
>open spot and started calling at about 10-13 wpm. It took about 15 
>min. to get a first reply, then for the next hour or so I had all 
>but a slow code pile up. Did the same for fd 2005. This year, our 
>club had a new cw op that was doing his best at about 5wpm. He 
>couldnt get in edgewise at first, but we tried the same technique, 
>and got him his first cw qsos -(on a K1 at that)
>You might try that technique for fd 2007. Maybe we could start a trend.
>-Pete
>
>Pete Axson
>WD4LST
>17901 NE 18th Ave
>Citra, FL 32113
>
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