Definitely agree. I regularly operate in the CWops CWT activity at
0300z, which is 0500 local time for me in the winter. I am limited at
that time to 40m (I don't have an antenna for 80/160 and the higher
bands are deader than a doornail).
The majority of my contacts at that hour are with stations in North
America. I usually S&P because I am not loud enough there to hold a
frequency (at least at the beginning). I find that the number of times
my call is copied incorrectly by the runner goes up rapidly when I send
at more than about 28 WPM.
73,
Victor, 4X6GP
Rehovot, Israel
Formerly K2VCO
CWops no. 5
http://www.qsl.net/k2vco/
On 10/11/2022 5:06, David Gilbert wrote:
In the presences of a lot of background noise (as on 160m) slower speeds
can sometimes improve readability. Your ear/brain benefits from being
able to integrate the tone over the noise. Some years ago I did some
experiments with that here:
http://www.ab7e.com/weak_signal/mdd.html (toward the end of the page)
73,
Dave Ab7E
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