[Elecraft] CW Contest and Elecraft K3s decoder

[Kevin Stover, AC0H]

I agree.

I can do 30 wpm without getting uncomfortable but I have experienced the 
"slowing down gets more contacts" phenomenon. Once in field day with a 
bunch of CW hands who can all copy and send above 40+ wpm. The one rule 
they had for field day was nobody sent faster that 22-25 wpm. They won 
their section and were a top 10 US 1A station almost every year. No 
problem holding a frequency.

Same for Nov SS. Ripping along at 40wpm sure is neat and all but how 
long does the contact take when you add time for 3 or 4 repeats? Slow 
down to 22-25 wpm and get the contacts first time or spend time 
repeating parts of the exchange then ultimately having to slow down anyway.

On 11/26/2017 7:32 PM, Bill Frantz wrote:
> In previous years, I used the K3's decoder and it worked very well. But, 
> for this contest, I bit the bullet and said, "I'm going to decode the 
> calls myself to improve my CW." I had a lot of fun doing so, although I 
> had to skip several stations that were sending above 30 WPM.
> 
> A small suggestion to those who know CW. If you are calling CQ and 
> getting no answers, like late in the contest, consider slowing down so 
> the CW impaired, like me, have a chance of making the contact. It may 
> improve your score.
> 
> 73 Bill AE6JV
> 
> On 11/26/17 at 4:09 PM, hk3j.dx at gmail.com (German Duran) wrote:
> 
>> Wonderful. I was doing the CQ WW CW contest and a lot of the contest I
>> worked with a software to help decode the stations. In the last hours of
>> the contest I decided to configure the decoder of my Elecraft K3s and
>> started to decode the stations better than with any of the software 
>> that is
>> in the market for this job. Congratulations to Elecraft for this marvel.
>> Germán HK3J
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