[Elecraft] QRP and Contesting

[Nate Bargmann]

* On 2022 08 Nov 16:33 -0600, Jorge Diez - CX6VM wrote:
> looks like someone is having a bad day

No.  Jim's comments are very apropos.  I am a causal contest op and I
always use a logging program with keying simply because it is the most
efficient means for me to do so and I have a very lousy fist that equals
my lousy handwriting (odd nerve impulses goof things up).  It is
imperative that the other station copy my callsign correctly so we both
get credit for the QSO.

I did not do SS but I get the same sort of dupe action operating in our
state QSO party, sometimes not more than a few minutes apart.  I can
only presume that either the op isn't actually logging or miscopied the
1x1 callsign I was using--there are only three of us operating with an
'N' suffix, K0N, N0N, W0N, which I guess is possible to miscopy.

Also, QRP is not an excuse to eschew computer logging and clean sending.
Some seem to take it to the extreme and think that Morse must be
generated by rubbing wires together.

73, Nate, N0NB

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