By common usage, the language has moved beyond the old CW procedural meanings. QRQ clearly also means faster than common usage. Same thing for QRO, which has more of an absolute sense these days.
Otherwise how would you interpret the sentence, "Do you consider 35 WPM QRQ?" 73, Guy. On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 5:31 PM, Ron D'Eau Claire <r...@cobi.biz> wrote: > It's all relative. QRQ means, simply, "Shall I send faster?", nothing more, > just as QRS means, simply, "Shall I send slower?" > > Obviously we've adapted those Q-codes in various ways, but they're meaning > is still relative unless a specific number is added, e.g. "QRQ to 70 WPM" or > "QRS to 30WPM" > > Ron AC7AC > > -----Original Message----- > Last time I looked at Waddle K. Knowitall's Authoritative Real > Meanings Dictionary, 70 wpm, indeed 50 wpm was QRQ all the way. > > If you want QSK, you should set the TX DLY to minimum 8 and leave it > there forever. I don't like the way it behaves at higher delays > anyway. If you want to keep RX from opening in certain contesting > situations, do it with the logging program and it's PTT setting and > pipe the logger supplied PTT signal around. You will find that your > 9500 and the K3 are slick together. > > You CAN use the CW+ fast QSK, but this is a fight in the K3 against > RX-TX-RX transition tasks. e.g. CPU time in the firmware, and in order > to be really fast some functions are disabled. You will need to > decide if the disabled functions are things you can do without. > > 73, Guy. > > On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 11:08 PM, Tommy Alderman > <alderm...@windstream.net> wrote: >> I suspect my days of QRQ are about over as right now I'm doing pretty good >> to copy at just 70 wpm! >> >> My primary interest is getting 'smooth' full QSK at contesting speeds, > i.e., >> 26 to 36 wpm. If I can get that, then I'll be happy. I did drop TX DLY > from >> 20 down to 8 and with the K3 barefoot, it sounds pretty darned good. In > the >> morning I will try this with the Alpha 9500 amp; every time I try it (on >> 20m), many Eu stations want a 'QSO'. Anyway I am getting close, both at 30 >> wpm and I just tested with TX DLY set for 8, and at 60 wpm it sounds good. >> >> Tom - W4BQF > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
