[Elecraft] CW Contest and Elecraft K3s decoder

[Bob McGraw K4TAX]

Kevin et al;

I agree, in fact I'd suppose as the CW speed the number of competent 
operators decreases proportionally.    Now I'm not saying "contest at 5 
WPM" but certainly there are more that can copy 15 WPM than 50 WPM.   
Just sayin'..........so for us slow folks and old folks.......QRS.

73

Bob, K4TAX


On 11/26/2017 8:38 PM, Kevin Stover, AC0H wrote:
> 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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