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Re: [CQ-Contest] Copying exchanges in ARRL DX CW

Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Copying exchanges in ARRL DX CW
From: K9MA <k9ma@sdellington.us>
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2017 11:17:03 -0500
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That's why, IMHO, there SHOULD be a penalty when the other operator busts your 
call.

73,

Scott K9MA

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Scott Ellington

 --- via iPad

> On Jun 15, 2017, at 7:44 AM, Nick Lekic <nick.ve3ey@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Let's keep the government regulators out of contesting please :-)
> 
> If a station chooses to send his or her call at 50 wpm or ID once per hour 
> it's their own strategy.  They do whatever they think it works best for them 
> - not for you.   It may help them or hurt them - whatever - but at the end 
> it's their call.    
> 
> Nick
> VE3EY
> 
> 
> 
> Sent from my iPad
> 
>>> On Jun 15, 2017, at 3:30 AM, Jim Brown <k9yc@audiosystemsgroup.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On Wed,6/14/2017 5:39 PM, K9MA wrote:
>>> Maybe 6Y2T could QRS just a tiny bit?
>> 
>> YES! Garry, NI6T, has allowed our CQP group to use his call several times. 
>> We don't send his call at the speed of light. Our club call is W6BX. I 
>> insert half spaces in both calls to make it easier to copy. W6JTI mostly 
>> works QRP and mostly CW. He carefully inserts half-spaces in his F-key 
>> messages. I watched him do it setting up for our team expedition to CM79 for 
>> ARRL VHF. GOOD ops who aren't ego-centered do stuff like that.
>> 
>> A common mistake that EU stations make in DX contests is to bang away at 35+ 
>> WPM when conditions are causing lots of flutter over a path. Why is it that 
>> these guys think that THEIR signal doesn't have the same flutter at my QTH 
>> that mine does at theirs? Did these guys sleep through the fundamental 
>> principle of reciprocity?
>> 
>> 73, Jim K9YC
>> 
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