[Elecraft] QRP and Contesting

[Victor Rosenthal 4X6GP]

Definitely agree. I regularly operate in the CWops CWT activity at 
0300z, which is 0500 local time for me in the winter. I am limited at 
that time to 40m (I don't have an antenna for 80/160 and the higher 
bands are deader than a doornail).

The majority of my contacts at that hour are with stations in North 
America. I usually S&P because I am not loud enough there to hold a 
frequency (at least at the beginning). I find that the number of times 
my call is copied incorrectly by the runner goes up rapidly when I send 
at more than about 28 WPM.

73,
Victor, 4X6GP
Rehovot, Israel
Formerly K2VCO
CWops no. 5
http://www.qsl.net/k2vco/

On 10/11/2022 5:06, David Gilbert wrote:
> 
> In the presences of a lot of background noise (as on 160m) slower speeds 
> can sometimes improve readability.  Your ear/brain benefits from being 
> able to integrate the tone over the noise.  Some years ago I did some 
> experiments with that here:
> 
> http://www.ab7e.com/weak_signal/mdd.html   (toward the end of the page)
> 
> 73,
> Dave   Ab7E