[FoxHunt] IARU Transmitter question

[Kuon & Dale Hunt]

>I'm making a change to PicCon's IARU mode, and have a question I need
>answered ASAP.
>
>Would it be OK to have the silence between MOEs be a fixed 1 second
>(approximate) delay, regardless of WPM speed of the MOEs?  Or does it
>have to be an official morse word space of 7 dit units?  I couldn't
>find anything in the rules.

   I don't see any problem with the fixed length delay.  The
   Montreal controllers seem to use fixed spacing between the
   start of each character group that is long enough to send
   MO5 - this gives an annoyingly long space when hunting MOE
   (and especially MO!)  If you gauged the gap for somewhere
   around 8 to 10 wpm it may sound a bit funny at slower speeds,
   but should be fine in the normal range.

       - Dale WB6BYU