[NLRS] Two other contest comments W9FZ/R

Thu, 22 Jan 2004 11:13:21 -0800 (PST)

in a response also...I have a memory keyer and I store
the most oft used responses in it for contesting and
use a combination of them while making a contact.  I
can send a whole lot better than recieve, but for me a
lot of times instead of agn agn agn, I use ???. 
although I have agn sometimes programmed in the memory
slots.

       Dave...N9TTX

--- "Chris Cox, N0UK" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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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