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Re: [CQ-Contest] WPX CW Signal Quality Concerns

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Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] WPX CW Signal Quality Concerns
From: K9MA <k9ma@sdellington.us>
Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2020 22:25:22 -0500
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On a related note, if I've done the math right, at 50 wpm, a dit lasts 24 ms, not including the following space.  I can see how 10 ms rise and fall might sound a bit mushy at that speed. 4 ms would probably sound better. However, contest speeds rarely exceed about 40 wpm, so 10 ms would probably be an acceptable tradeoff for a radio that lacks the raised cosine waveform, and much appreciated by the neighbors.

Outside of contests, when the bands aren't crowded, I'd have no objection to the super-QRQ folks using faster rise and fall times. As long as they remember to switch it back before the next contest.

73,
Scott K9MA


On 6/8/2020 19:08, Jim Brown wrote:
On 6/8/2020 1:12 PM, Jim Brown wrote:
They achieve rise time of about 2.5 msec,

Correction from N6KR (designer) -- about 4 msec

73, Jim K9YC
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