I am a QRQ operator and have been for about 30 years and of course I use a keyboard for sending CW. In my opinion it is just silly to run much over 34/35 wpm during contest and I personally think one is hurting themselves by 'showing off'! Sometimes if I get irritated and find someone sending at 50 wpm in a contest, I will crank my K3 up to 80 wpm and respond to them, where upon they rather quickly QRS a bit and ask for a repeat.
Both are just a silly thing to do IMHO. 73, Tom - W4BQF -----Original Message----- From: Elecraft [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of F5vjc Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2014 5:17 PM To: Brian Alsop Cc: Elecraft Reflector Subject: Re: [Elecraft] QRQ CW Yes agreed, there are QRQ Ops out there but a tiny minority reading in excess of 50 WPM head copy, but keyboard sending of course. Yes In CW contesting I agree the average is probably 30 WPM but above this speed get ready for the inevitable Agn, Agn, my No. etc. Wasted time and effort. As for cut numbers... forget it. Except of course, the 5NN sync pulse and zeroes, again wasted time and unnecessary repeats. Cut numbers are silly. If you're making Q/s in excess of 50WPM in a contest what CW reader are you using?..And of course these must be noise crushing Mega signals S9+++ no QRM, so your CW reader can cope. Try this during the last day/hours of the contest when the peanut whistle signals are S+P and you're desparate for those last points. Yes the K3 just works,no problem, never any QSD at any speed. Please let's not turn CW into 'Just another Digital mode' or you may as well just go use RTTY or PSK 31 or whatever... 73, F5VJC On 29 April 2014 22:07, Brian Alsop <[email protected]> wrote: > There was a thread on QRQ CW here. Also a query about does anybody > send QRQ CW. > > For 2013 CQ WW contest N6TV did an analysis. > The answer was 30+ WPM average. > The top speeds were in excess of 50 WPM! > > See: http://cqww.com/blog/?p=302 > > With all the K3's being used by contesters, it doesn't appear that > contesters are running into QSD problems at 30+ WPM. > > 73 de Brian/K3KO > > > ----- > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 2012.0.2247 / Virus Database: 3722/6914 - Release Date: > 04/29/14 > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email > list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to > [email protected] > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected] ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
