> He said that during the entire QSO neither one of them ever got the other > station's call correct. :=)
Now, that made me laugh. -phil, K7PEH On May 1, 2014, at 10:07 AM, Alan Bloom <[email protected]> wrote: > On 05/01/2014 09:41 AM, Brian Alsop wrote: >> I wonder where Dave got this idea from. I'd like to suggest it is >> wishful thinking. > >> On 5/1/2014 16:22, Jim Brown wrote: >>> On 5/1/2014 9:15 AM, dave wrote: >>>> But I suspect that the winners do not regularly run high speed. > > I agree with Dave that it can be counterproductive to run high speed in a > contest. You lose too many contacts with stations who can't copy that fast. > > I used to be able to copy 50 wpm pretty consistently in my head and I have a > 40 wpm W1AW code proficiency certificate. But it makes no sense to go that > fast in a contest unless you are content to work only other QRQ stations. > > I think around 30 wpm or so is reasonable. Even operators who can't go quite > that fast can probably get your callsign after listening for a minute. Then > when they call you at 18 or 20 wpm you can slow down to work them and then > speed up again. > > Years ago Chuck W1WPR, the chief op at W1AW, was listening to a QSO on 40 > meters where they were motoring along at 70 wpm or so (obviously using > keyboards to send). So Chuck recorded them on the reel-to-reel tape recorder > and later played it back at half speed to see what they were saying. He said > that during the entire QSO neither one of them ever got the other station's > call correct. :=) > > Alan N1AL > ______________________________________________________________ > 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]
