The question was How many qsos can you make in 8 minutes?
In this last contest, I went 8 minutes between someone answering my cq a
number of times.
And with my weeny signal I bet I spent a lot more time than 8 minutes
making corrections.
Both so he got it right
and
So I could correct my errors also.
As Wyatt Earp said: "Fast is good, accuracy is deadly".
On 2/14/2011 7:55 AM, Joe Subich, W4TV wrote:
> > They waste more then this when do not putting the space after call
> > sign.
>
> Very true. I don't know of any single radio operator who makes 4000
> RTTY QSOs in a 48 hour contest.
>
> The other considerations are - how many QSOs will they have removed
> in the log checking process due to "bad calls" and how many duplicate
> QSOs will they have because the other station did not get the right
> call the first time.
>
> 73,
>
> ... Joe, W4TV
>
>
> On 2/14/2011 7:12 AM, RW4WZ wrote:
>>
>>>> The "penalty" for the three extra spaces is less than 1/2 second
>>>> so it should not impact even the stations with the highest rate.
>>> REPLY:
>>>
>>> 1/2 second times 1000 QSOs is 8.3 minutes. Won't matter to
>>> casual contesters but serious contesters have won and lost by
>>> one or two Q's.
>>>
>>> How many Q's can be made in 8.3 minutes?
>> They waste more then this when do not putting the space after call sign.
>> Last WPX I note that almost all big guns do this and it takes 4-6 seconds
>> for me try to retrieve the call from the garbage on the screen. I never ask
>> to repeat because I know that I'll get the same garbage
>>
>> Larry
>>
>> RW4WZ
>>
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