What stuff. If you are going to operate with a key, you should have practiced enough beforehand to be able to send the entire exchange without an issue. One repeat at most.
That is all Jim is complaining about: be minimally competent. 73, Byron N6NUL On Tue, Nov 8, 2022, at 9:04 PM, Victor Rosenthal 4X6GP wrote: > Jim, > > The alternative is that if one is new to CW (or to ham radio at all), > he/she should not operate in the Sweepstakes, and just let the > experienced ops have their fun. I'm sure you would not prefer that! > > 73, > Victor, 4X6GP > Rehovot, Israel > Formerly K2VCO > CWops no. 5 > http://www.qsl.net/k2vco > > On 08/11/2022 23:49, Jim Brown wrote: > > I made more than 1,000 QSOs in Sweepstakes this weekend, and the most > > frustrating, by far, were from a couple of dozen QRPers who 1) never > > heard of dupe checking; and 2) sent by hand with pretty lousy fists. > > Late Sunday evening, while calling CQ on another band, I waited a couple > > of minutes for a VA2 station to get a fill on the serial number from a > > QRPer who couldn't send it correctly, probably because he hadn't worked > > enough CW to have a decent fist. The problem was NOT signal strength. I > > had the same problem with half of the casual QRPers I worked. > > > > Both of these problems are easily solved by using a contest logging > > program, both to log and to send CW. This is not a slam on QRP operation > > -- I've worked a lot of contests QRP, and one of my best buddies, W6JTI, > > WINS or places in the top two or three in the many contests he enters > > QRP. Frank made 554 QSOs in SS last weekend, and made the sweep of all > > 84 sections (NOT easy with HIGH power). > > > > Why does this matter? Because MANY contesters take it seriously, and > > most can finish a Sweepstakes QSO in 30-40 seconds. Most of us, me > > included, are happy to work and encourage new contesters, but it's very > > frustrating when someone can't send CW due to lack of practice, and > > calls to work us a second or even a third time because he's too lazy to > > check of dupes, taking well over a minute to finish a QSO. > > > > 73, Jim K9YC > > > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________ > > 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 k2vco....@gmail.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 by...@n6nul.org 73, Byron N6NUL -- - Northern California Contest Club - CU in the Cal QSO Party 7-8 Oct 2023 - www.cqp.org ______________________________________________________________ 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
