[NLRS] Two other contest comments W9FZ/R

[Chris Cox, N0UK]

On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> don't have time to fix it.  I hope you'll want to work me anyways despite
> the signal problems.  I frequently like to switch to CW to finish a QSO.
> Crossmode QSO's are fine with me.  You can stay on voice and I'll do CW.
> Don't say "roger" if you need me to send my cw message again.  Say "again
> again again" or "slower slower slower" depending on what's needed.  To those
> of you new to CW, I'm one of those guys who would rather keep trying with
> you and I WILL keep slowing down slower and slower so that we get a complete
> QSO.  Same thing if you have to send to me in CW.  I'll try to match your
> speed.  Don't give me "r r r" if you don't have my info yet. "agn agn agn"
> would be better :-)  or "grid agn".  If CW will make the difference between
> us completing and not completing a QSO, I'd like some of you newer guys to
> give it a shot and we'll work our way through it.  The sense of
> accomplishment (on both ends) is considerable.

As much as I hate adding only a "me too" to a message in a reply, I 
believe this one is warranted.  I absolutely concur with Bruce's 
sentiments above.  I know that a lot of amateurs are quite afraid of 
embarrassing themselves because they feel their morse skills are lacking.  
Remember, we were ALL there once!  Contests are actually an EXCELLENT 
medium for gaining self-confidence using "The Code(TM)".  The contact 
format is very well defined as long as everyone follows the rules as 
alluded to in Bruce's message above; i.e. you never send rogers until you 
have received everything you need, etc.  Furthermore, people WANT to work 
you!

Good luck to you all.

I hope you all come second ;-)

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