[Elecraft] QRP and contesting

[Bill Lederer]

That is pretty impressive.

When I was first a ham, one of the locals was W7QYA, Flo, a school teacher
not far away. I had managed to crank my speed up to 40 (with some struggle)
but she said that was painfully slow for her. Her nominal speed was 65
wpm.  I have yet to get much above 40.


On Thu, Nov 10, 2022 at 12:47 PM Wayne Burdick <n6kr at elecraft.com> wrote:

> Funny story.... Last Field Day my son and a friend of his went camping
> with our group. Neither of them are CW operators (yet), but they did know
> the alphabet. They borrowed a MCU-controlled code-practice generator from
> another op and were competing to see who could copy single letters at the
> fastest rate.
>
> When they got stuck at around 20 WPM, I said, "how fast does that thing
> go?" It apparently would go much, much higher, into Morse nosebleed range.
>
> Just for fun, I asked them to set it up to generate random English text at
> 45 WPM. I decoded enough of it to convince them that this code speed was in
> my head-copy range. Then they started bumping it up another 5 WPM at a
> time--a challenge! I was in some sort of zone that day. Maybe it was the
> sunshine; maybe the idyllic sound of blue jays; maybe the 4-pack of White
> Claw I'd scored at the liquor store. In the end I managed to copy several
> words at 70 WPM. I'll never know if they were inspired or demoralized. They
> shook their heads and went off on a 5 mile hike.
>
> Wayne
> N6KR
>
>
> > On Nov 10, 2022, at 10:16 AM, Alan Geller <alan_geller2001 at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Yea Wayne, thats the terrific Elecraft attitude that keeps your customer
> base strong and loyal.
> > Its called, “ lets all have fun and learn something” Hooray for the
> serious high speed ops, a
> > Lot of ex Navy guys, but its pretty easy to spot the slow lane and ease
> back into the fast lane.
> >
> > Happy Veterans Day youse guys….K6ADG
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > I'm in this group. Casual contest operation, usually QRP, mostly CW, and
> almost always logging by hand.
> >
> > I greatly appreciate all of the very serious ops out there who approach
> this with a high level of skill and give everyone -- regardless of ability
> -- that next QSO.
>
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