Reference the recent complaints about REs and the QRL discussions.
Apparently there are some on the reflector who do not want to read some of
the more interesting and lengthy discussions related to CONTESTING. I learn
something everyday from reading ALL of the items posted on the reflector. I
look at the contest reflector as an ongoing extension of the regular
magazines, CQ, QST, and NCJ. There are thoughtful discussions and
station/operating tidbits that you just don't find in the magazines. The
wealth of information available is worth the extra cost of on-line time (for
me $10-30 per month, thru America Online), especially if it saves me $100s or
$1000s as I improve/upgrade my station.
So, KEEP UP THE DISCUSSIONS; it keeps me interested during the times between
the arrival of CQ, QST, and NCJ.
73,
Henry Pollock - WB4HFL
>From Larry Tyree <tree@cmicro.com> Tue Jul 25 18:14:20 1995
From: Larry Tyree <tree@cmicro.com> (Larry Tyree)
Subject: Internet spring logs
Message-ID: <199507251714.KAA22974@cascade.cmicro.com>
If you were active in the SprINT last weekend, we would really like to
get your log. The more logs we get, the better name tracing our crack
software team will be able to do.
If you need a couple of days beyond the deadline to get your log to us,
that is okay.
Mail your logs in ASCII format to tree@cmicro.com.
Look for the results in another week or two.
Tree N6TR
>From Daniel R. Violette" <Daniel_R._Violette@ccmail.anatcp.rockwell.com Tue
>Jul 25 19:40:35 1995
From: Daniel R. Violette" <Daniel_R._Violette@ccmail.anatcp.rockwell.com
(Daniel R. Violette)
Subject: PARIS speed -> WPM
Message-ID: <9506258066.AA806694313@ccmail.anatcp.rockwell.com>
Anyone ever get an answer to the PARIS speed to WPM conversion. Is
the PARIS speed characters per minute? Then divide by 5 and in the
ballpark?
73,
Dan KI6X
e-mail: Daniel_R._Violette@ccmail.anatcp.rockwell.com
>From KAY, LEONARD" <LKAY@pria.com Tue Jul 25 23:49:00 1995
From: KAY, LEONARD" <LKAY@pria.com (KAY, LEONARD)
Subject: PARIS speed -> WPM
Message-ID: <30157A60@pria.com>
> Anyone ever get an answer to the PARIS speed to WPM conversion. Is
> the PARIS speed characters per minute? Then divide by 5 and in the
> ballpark?
>
> 73,
> Dan KI6X
I always thought it was direct WPM, i.e. count how many times you can
send PARIS in one minute.
Of course, you can certainly count characters in one minute and divide
by five. However, that assumes PARIS is a five-letter word. :-)
73, Len KB2R
lkay@pria.com
>From Swanson, Glenn, KB1GW" <gswanson@arrl.org Tue Jul 25 22:00:00 1995
From: Swanson, Glenn, KB1GW" <gswanson@arrl.org (Swanson, Glenn, KB1GW)
Subject: PARIS speed -> WPM
Message-ID: <30155B6B@arrl.org>
Greeting fellow contesters,
Regarding "PARIS" and CW speed, I asked Larry Wolfgang, WR1B in the ARRL
Technical Department about this, and he gave me the following answer:
PARIS provides a simple way to "time" your code speed. There has been a
detailed discussion in the ARRL Handbook for years, and a bit less detail in
Now You're Talking!, but that should answer most questions.
To quote from page 11-5 of Now You're Talking!, "An analysis of English
plain-language text shows that the average word (including the space at the
end of the word) is 50 units long. By a unit we mean the time of a single
dot or space between the parts of a character. The word PARIS is 50 units
long, so we use it as a standard word to check code speed accurately. For
example, to transmit at 5 words per minute (wpm), adjust your code-speed
timing to send PARIS five times in one minute. To transmit at 10 wpm, adjust
your timing to send PARIS 10 times in one minute."
The text goes on to explain that the length of a dot (and so the lengths of
dashes and spaces) changes for each word speed. It is also true that the
PARIS method works to determine the correct word speed using the
"Farhnsworth" technique of sending the characters (dots, dashes and spaces
between them) at a faster rate and allowing more space between letters and
words to slow the overall speed. Even if you are sending the characters at
20 wpm, if you allow more space between letters and words so you only send
PARIS five times in one minute, then you are sending at 5 wpm!
Figure 11-2 on page 11-5 of Now You're Talking! shows the relationships
between the dot length, dash length and the various space lengths. Older
Handbooks (up through the 1994 edition) go on to point out that if you set
the code speed to send, for example, 10 wpm, using PARIS, but then sent
random code groups, you would find that you sent fewer than 10 5-letter
random code groups in a minute. This is because the average length of a
5-character random group is 60 elements, not 50. So to set the timing
properly if random code groups will be used, you use the "word" CODEX.
Other ways to make a quick estimate of code speed in words per minute is to
count the number of dots per minute and divide by 25, or to count the number
of dashes in 5 seconds. Both numbers will be good approximations to the code
speed in words per minute.
>From CT1BOH@tpone.telepac.pt (JOSE C. C. NUNES) Wed Jul 26 06:38:57 1995
From: CT1BOH@tpone.telepac.pt (JOSE C. C. NUNES) (JOSE C. C. NUNES)
Subject: IOTA CONTEST
Message-ID: <Chameleon.950725224347.CT1BOH@>
Hi all
The winning team of the two previous editions of the IOTA contest (CS4B and
CS5C) will again be QRV this time from Berlenga Island as CS2B.
Team:
Luis CT4NH
Rafael CT1BOP
Jose Alexandre CT1DIZ
Moreira CT1AHU
Jose CT1BOH
Expect QRO QRQ QRZ
Hope to see you all.
Jose
CT1BOH@telepac.pt
>From James White <0006492564@mcimail.com> Wed Jul 26 00:05:00 1995
From: James White <0006492564@mcimail.com> (James White)
Subject: Omni VI and NA/CT Questions
Message-ID: <14950725230541/0006492564PK4EM@MCIMAIL.COM>
...is there anyone on this here reflector who has used the Omni VI
interfaced with a computer - it seems all I have to do is go from its 25 pin
connector to the 25 pin comm port on the '486 and I'm QRV....too easy, what
else do I have to do.....
...also: on the start up screens for NA and CT ---->CONTEST<----- software
there is no mention of the Ten Tec rigs as an option from which one is to
choose...do I pic an Icom rig???
...any halp?
Jim, K1ZX k1zx@mcimail.com
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