[Elecraft] QRQ CW

Phil Wheeler w7ox at socal.rr.com
Tue Apr 29 20:16:22 EDT 2014


Ah, Wayne, but can you keep up with the text on 
the LCD after that second glass? :-)

Need more lines!  Feature to add to the P3?

73 Phil w7ox

On 4/29/14, 4:43 PM, Wayne Burdick wrote:
> I can copy 50 WPM on a good day, but when I encounter ops running higher speeds, or if the ol' synapses are dulled by a glass of vino, I eavesdrop using the built-in text decoder (K3 and KX3). I find such signals on 40 m during the day, usually. I think these ops are using keyboards, more often than not, based on the number of mistakes correlated to QWERTY.
>
> 73,
> Wayne
> N6KR
>
>
> On Apr 29, 2014, at 1:07 PM, Brian Alsop <alsopb at nc.rr.com> wrote:
>
>> There was a thread on QRQ CW here.  Also a query about does anybody send QRQ CW.
>>
>> For 2013 CQ WW contest N6TV did an analysis.
>> The answer was 30+ WPM average.
>> The top speeds were in excess of 50 WPM!
>>
>> See: http://cqww.com/blog/?p=302
>>
>> With all the K3's being used by contesters, it doesn't appear that contesters are running into QSD problems at 30+ WPM.
>>
>> 73 de Brian/K3KO



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