I agree.
I can do 30 wpm without getting uncomfortable but I have experienced the
"slowing down gets more contacts" phenomenon. Once in field day with a
bunch of CW hands who can all copy and send above 40+ wpm. The one rule
they had for field day was nobody sent faster that 22-25 wpm. They won
their section and were a top 10 US 1A station almost every year. No
problem holding a frequency.
Same for Nov SS. Ripping along at 40wpm sure is neat and all but how
long does the contact take when you add time for 3 or 4 repeats? Slow
down to 22-25 wpm and get the contacts first time or spend time
repeating parts of the exchange then ultimately having to slow down anyway.
On 11/26/2017 7:32 PM, Bill Frantz wrote:
In previous years, I used the K3's decoder and it worked very well. But,
for this contest, I bit the bullet and said, "I'm going to decode the
calls myself to improve my CW." I had a lot of fun doing so, although I
had to skip several stations that were sending above 30 WPM.
A small suggestion to those who know CW. If you are calling CQ and
getting no answers, like late in the contest, consider slowing down so
the CW impaired, like me, have a chance of making the contact. It may
improve your score.
73 Bill AE6JV
On 11/26/17 at 4:09 PM, [email protected] (German Duran) wrote:
Wonderful. I was doing the CQ WW CW contest and a lot of the contest I
worked with a software to help decode the stations. In the last hours of
the contest I decided to configure the decoder of my Elecraft K3s and
started to decode the stations better than with any of the software
that is
in the market for this job. Congratulations to Elecraft for this marvel.
Germán HK3J
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