Yeah few can copy my call at 40 WPM in CW. However, if you give it to Trey
at 50 or so, he just sez Hi Jay.
Which is why I generally use the club call on CW.
At 07:36 AM 10/12/2008 -0700, Kok Chen wrote:
>Remember when W6NL used to be W6QHS? That was brutal to copy at 40
>wpm CW; I used to recognize it by lots of dots at the end and just
>assumed it was Dave. Nowadays, you can just use Skimmer :-). I was
>watching the RTTY contest a little on 40m yesterday and Dave was
>there sprinting away.
>
>As a nit, R and Y are actually not that desirable for RTTY call signs
>if there is a lot of multipath and hence mark-space overlaps. It is
>better to choose Baudot letters with fewer bit transitions. The
>reason why RYRY is used for testing is that there are maximal bit
>transition. They are characters that often are the first to misprint.
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