[Fists] Keynote comments & CW/QRS

[David J. Ring, Jr.]

Doubling the spacing will reduce the speed by half, just make sure it is
consistant - that the word spacing gets doubled also.

One thing that I learned in many years of handling traffic via morse is that
"fast letters" should be spaced a bit more:

Words like:

MISSISSIPPI are difficult to copy because they are so "DITTY" - full of
dits.

In American Morse it is even worse - because the word Mississippi is ALL
dots - the letter P in American Morse is five dots.  Likewise the word
Missouri is all but one dash comprised of dots (U which contains the lone
dash is the same in both codes, while O and R in American are all dots).

73

David N1EA

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bruce Shaw" <ag4ny at intergate.com>
To: "Steve-W0OOW" <w0oow at piperscreek.com>
Cc: <fists at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, March 04, 2005 6:44 PM
Subject: Re: [Fists] Keynote comments & CW/QRS


Sending CC's may delay your post. If you feel that your post needs to go to
more than one destination please send them separately.



Steve-W0OOW wrote:

'In the Keynote... the section entitled "A Final Word about Speed".  I agree
and would like to add something.  Sometimes when a person asks another to
QRS, it might be hard for someone to do that.  My keyer in my QRP rig for
example requires me to enter a menu and then set the speed.  Meanwhile the
other station wonders if I went QRT.'

What about just putting more space between the characters?  That should not
require an adjustment to the keyer and should be adequate for most slower
ops.  I know that helps me.


-- 
72/73
Bruce Shaw
Snow Camp NC
AG4NY

FISTS # 6911,  NAQRP # 313,  ARCI-QRP # 10242,  Flying Pigs # 89,
Knightlites QRP Club

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what
he cannot lose.
    ... Jim Elliot (1927-1956), missionary, martyr, The
        Journals of Jim Elliot [1978]



-- 
No virus found in this outgoing message.
Checked by AVG Anti-Virus.
Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 266.5.7 - Release Date: 3/1/05

_______________________________________________
Fists mailing list
Fists at mailman.qth.net
http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/fists