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Re: [CQ-Contest] Serial # contests, speed?

To: Mike Smith VE9AA <ve9aa@nbnet.nb.ca>
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Serial # contests, speed?
From: K9MA <k9ma@sdellington.us>
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2019 20:02:55 -0600
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I slow down to the other’s speed, if necessary, and further if conditions are 
poor. I think slowing down just for the sn is counterproductive.

73,
Scott K9MA 

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Scott Ellington

 --- via iPad

> On Mar 11, 2019, at 6:44 PM, Mike Smith VE9AA <ve9aa@nbnet.nb.ca> wrote:
> 
> For contests like RDX and WPX where the exchange is a serial #, do you:
> 
> 
> 
> .       Go as fast as always. (34-36wpm) , risking your qso partner busting
> the #,but keeping rate high.
> 
> .       Go a bit slower (30-32wpm), hoping the QRS improves the copy &
> reduces busted exchanges.
> 
> .       Send everything just as fast as normal (whatever that speed is), but
> use brackets <<>> (a la N1MM) to slow down JUST the serial #
> 
> .       Slow down only for obviously slow callers
> 
> .       Something else?
> 
> 
> 
> Inquiring minds.
> 
> 
> 
> I don't want to skew the results, so I won't say (yet) what I do. (and who
> knows if what I do is even 'right')
> 
> 
> 
> Mike VE9AA
> 
> 
> 
> Mike, Coreen & Corey
> 
> Keswick Ridge, NB
> 
> 
> 
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