A lot of contesters can manage a 30 WPM Contest QSO or even 50 WPM, but would be hard pressed to get solid copy of a 25 WPM Rag Chew or even slower with W1AW sending QST Text. I can get a DX call sign at 50 if I get to hear it several times and there is good signal strength and not too much QRM, but I don't claim to copy 50 WPM. I can get by with a few mistakes using paddles at 22 or 23 and a straight key at 25 or 26 but to QSO with DX or Contest at 30 to 50 I need my puter and the F keys programmed. So for copy speed I will claim no more than 25. As a contester, I have much better results if I keep my speed at 28 or below because the speed merchants who can call CQ at 30 to 50 often cannot copy your call at that speed. I think we would all have more fun and probably make more QSOs if we would slow down to about 1.2 times our Rag Chew speed, but I have a lot of fun the way things are, so I am not complaining. Willis 'Cookie' Cooke, TDXS DX Chairman K5EWJ & Trustee N5BPS, USS Cavalla, USS Stewart
________________________________ From: "mcduf...@ag0n.net" <mcduf...@ag0n.net> To: als...@nc.rr.com; elecraft <elecraft@mailman.qth.net> Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2014 7:51 PM Subject: Re: [Elecraft] QRQ CW > Not at all. There were a number of posters here who simply could not > believe anybody could copy 30 WPM. Really? :o( > I thought it would be interesting to point out that several 1000 > contesters consider 30 WPM to a routine speed. Agree. > Of course to a no-coder, many Generals and Extras these days, 30 WPM > might as well be 1000 WPM. In their eyes it is QRQ. We used to consider speeds over about 45 to be QRQ. I still do. I certainly don't consider myself a QRQ operator, and I regularly run at 30-35. My aging, retired brain no longer does well at upper speeds. Because I had been off of HF for over ten years when I retired, it took a long time to get back to being comfy at 30. The brain just wouldn't keep up with the key when sending. Doing better now, but I'm no QRQ op. Gary ______________________________________________________________ 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 Message delivered to wrco...@yahoo.com ______________________________________________________________ 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
