[Elecraft] K3 & CQWW

[Brian Alsop]

Dave,

The premise that nobody can copy high speed CW is simply false.

The RUFZ contest simulator shows that hundreds of contest stations are 
able to pull out call signs at over 50 wpm.   The top guy does this at 
160 WPM.   See:   http://www.sk3bg.se/contest/rufztop.htm

In many contests the exchange is known most of the time before hand.   
Thus huge number of QSO's can be accurately completed at such speeds.

Like the market place, you charge (set speed) at what traffic will bear.

Early on in a contest fast + loud is the right thing to do for score.   
High speed reduces pileup size for rare ones and actually helps QSO rate.

73 de Brian/K3KO

Julian, G4ILO wrote:

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>Dave Agsten wrote:
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>>Speaking of those ultra high speed CW stations, I have to wonder if they
>>are in a radio contest or a computer contest? Isn't the computer doing
>>most of the operating. I don't know, since having the PC run the show, as
>>far as contest exchanges are concerned, is of absolutely no interest to
>>me.  Does the computer copy and select the calling station? ( I have no
>>idea?? ) If it does, then it really is a computer contest and not a ham
>>radio contest.
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>In a CW contest the computer does less than in a RTTY or PSK contest. There
>is no CW decoding software yet written that decodes reliably enough in the
>presence of contest QRM to be used without aural conformation, or that can
>decode weak signals close to the noise at all. Computers are an operating
>aid, but that's all.
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>I have been thinking of adding a facility to my software that records the
>exchange and allows it to be played back, at half speed if required. Do
>other programs do that?
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