[Elecraft] QRQ CW

[Phil Hystad]

>  He said that during the entire QSO neither one of them ever got the other station's call correct.  :=)


Now, that made me laugh.

-phil, K7PEH



On May 1, 2014, at 10:07 AM, Alan Bloom <n1al at sonic.net> wrote:

> On 05/01/2014 09:41 AM, Brian Alsop wrote:
>> I wonder where Dave got this idea from. I'd like to suggest it is
>> wishful thinking.
> 
>> On 5/1/2014 16:22, Jim Brown wrote:
>>> On 5/1/2014 9:15 AM, dave wrote:
>>>> But I suspect that the winners do not regularly run high speed.
> 
> I agree with Dave that it can be counterproductive to run high speed in a contest.  You lose too many contacts with stations who can't copy that fast.
> 
> I used to be able to copy 50 wpm pretty consistently in my head and I have a 40 wpm W1AW code proficiency certificate.  But it makes no sense to go that fast in a contest unless you are content to work only other QRQ stations.
> 
> I think around 30 wpm or so is reasonable.  Even operators who can't go quite that fast can probably get your callsign after listening for a minute.  Then when they call you at 18 or 20 wpm you can slow down to work them and then speed up again.
> 
> Years ago Chuck W1WPR, the chief op at W1AW, was listening to a QSO on 40 meters where they were motoring along at 70 wpm or so (obviously using keyboards to send).  So Chuck recorded them on the reel-to-reel tape recorder and later played it back at half speed to see what they were saying.  He said that during the entire QSO neither one of them ever got the other station's call correct.  :=)
> 
> Alan N1AL
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