[Elecraft] QRP and Contesting

[Jim Brown]

On 11/9/2022 2:31 PM, Al Lorona wrote:
> I mean, 30 WPM with no repeats is actually faster than 40 WPM with some repeats.

Great advice, Al. My friend N6TV, who has won SS several times, starts 
out in the 30s, but slows down towards the end of the contest. Nearly 
all of my operation was 26-28 wpm. I slowed down when someone needed it, 
but it's been observed that a lot of ops who send fairly slow are using 
readers, so that's rarely required. What's more important, I think, is 
sending good clean code.

One tactic I use in pileups is to send as fast as I think the other guy 
can copy, in the hope of sneaking more of my call into a gap between 
other callers. On these occasions, I'll get up to 34 wpm or so. A few 
times I've forgotten to slow back down, so ran for a while before I 
caught my mistake.

On 11/9/2022 2:45 PM, Andrew (A.J.) Stockton via Elecraft wrote:
 > How about an online counter for ‘Please Copy’. {coming to SSB soon}.

I refuse to work anyone who says that. Those lids have soured my on SSB 
contesting, which I used to enjoy.

73, Jim K9YC