Most of the top gun contest ops are copying manually and using the
computer to send, then log the contacts. A contest exchange is more like
copying code groups rather than clear text. If you have a good idea
what's coming in the exchange you really only have to copy the call.
CQWW exchange is much easier to anticipate compared to something like
Sweeps.
As Julian said they haven't written a piece of software yet that can
decode morse code as well as the trained human brain. They do work
pretty well in non-contest situations on properly timed and spaced CW. I
think they'd be terrible in a QRM filled contest situation.
My one and only gripe about computer generated morse in a contest is the
guys who're more than likely running SO2R leaving a rig in a CQ loop and
not paying enough attention to people answering. I know in the CW
version of Sweep Stakes I moved on down the band when I came across a
station in a "CQ Loop" with no possible way to squeeze a reply in
between CQ's.
They're loss.
To the big guns sending at 40+, there are way more of us than there are
of you.
Wouldn't it makes sense to slow the CQ and exchange down to a reasonable
22-27 wpm and work a bunch more people? My 27 wpm Q counts just as much
as the other guys 40 wpm Q and there's more of me than there are of him.
I can't count the number of stations running in SS who answered my 27wpm
call to them with 40+, despite testimony to the contrary on this reflector.
Dave Agsten wrote:
Speaking of those ultra high speed CW stations, I have to wonder if they are in
a radio contest or a computer contest? Isn't the computer doing most of the
operating. I don't know, since having the PC run the show, as far as contest
exchanges are concerned, is of absolutely no interest to me. Does the computer
copy and select the calling station? ( I have no idea?? ) If it does, then it
really is a computer contest and not a ham radio contest.
C'ya in the ARRL 160
73,
Dave N8AG
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