Just when did the totally incorrect fact that the high speed contest operators are using CW decoders get started?? NO truth to that at all. And pretty well proven by the original question of this thread. CW decoders need good steady on frequency signals to work reliably. That almost never happens in contest pile up calling.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Sheldon" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, November 27, 2017 3:04:34 PM Subject: Re: [Elecraft] CW Contest and Elecraft K3s decoder In order to keep the robots from getting perfect copy on me either rag chewing or the very few contests I enter, I've stopped using a keyer and have reverted to sending with a bug. Not very many robots can copy even a good bug fist. I'm of the opinion that robot copying and power over 500 watts output should be outlawed in contests. That would help level the playing field immensely. (flame suit on) > On Nov 27, 2017, at 4:33 PM, EUGENE GABRY <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> On November 27, 2017 at 12:44 PM Jim Brown <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> And another FWIW -- putting a lot of hours into a CW contest will >> improve your code speed significantly! >> >> 73, Jim K9YC > > Totally agree with this statement. I don't do much CW rag chew now as I used > to. So I'm losing some of my edge. But even from the beginning of a CW > contest to the end, the 36WPM sending speed at the end seems the same as the > 26WPM speed I started with. And I'm able to rag chew a bit at the higher > speed rather than only copy the call and report. SS is the best for honing in > accuracy with speed throughout just the contest period ass the exchange is > long and mostly unpredictable. > > 73 Gene, N9TF > ______________________________________________________________ > 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] -- Jim Cassidy KI7Y ______________________________________________________________ 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]
