How about an online counter for ‘Please Copy’. {coming to SSB soon}. Need a
quarter jar for that one…..
-AJ | NK4O
> On Nov 9, 2022, at 5:31 PM, Al Lorona <alor...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
> This issue is a kind of double-edged sword that cuts not only newbies with
> bad fists, but Big Guns with fists that are, well, *too* good.
>
> I noticed this opposite phenomenon as soon as CW SS got started. It seemed
> that the average CW speed was way up this year. (I hadn't operated the SS in
> a couple of years, so this trend may have started a couple of years ago and I
> just now have experienced it.)
>
> My CW skill is decent, but even I got into hot water when copying some
> exchanges: Was that 378A? Or 377U? Asking for a repeat didn't always help,
> because at 45 WPM slight multipath distortions in the ionosphere start to
> mess with high-speed CW. Not a single op slowed down for me, even if I had to
> ask for multiple repeats.
>
> Then there's this: When you think about it, there's no incentive to help
> someone like me copy correctly. After all, if I copy incorrectly, I'm the one
> who gets penalized, not him. By asking for a repeat, all I'm doing (in his
> mind) is slowing him down on his run frequency. And probably ticking him off?
>
> I mean, 30 WPM with no repeats is actually faster than 40 WPM with some
> repeats.
>
> You may say, "Well, Al, you're a lid for entering a contest if you're unable
> to copy quickly enough to participate." Maybe so, but the obstinacy of
> operating at 40+ WPM no matter what shows a colossal disdain for the Little
> Pistols who are the bread and butter of the elite.
>
> In two weeks we'll get to hear the Phone SS equivalent of this obstinacy:
> absolutely nasty, overdriven, groaty, fingernails-on-a-chalkboard, bad audio.
> How lovely.
>
> R,
>
> Al W6LX/4
>
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