On Tue, Nov 08, 2011 at 09:53:52AM -0500, Gerry Hull wrote:
> At a QSO rate of 450/hr, for example, that is an average of 8 seconds per
> qso. Very fast english can be spoken at 400 wpm or so, or 6 words per
> second. (Let's assume each phonetic letter is a word)
One of the ways that some ops squeeze a few more contacts into an hour
is to not always use phonetics. They will do this:
pile: Whiskey Mike 5 Radio
op: WM5R 59 4
And they will do this over and over - not using phonetics when
calling the stations back - it is much harder to do than you
would think.
Listen for stuff like this when you are listening to someone really
going fast sometime.
--
George Fremin III - K5TR
geoiii@kkn.net
http://www.kkn.net/~k5tr
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