I have been pleasantly surprised, over the last 10 years or so, to see such
rapid improvement in the average quality of QRP ops. A decade ago, a lot of
them seemed to be using their left feet, or a bent piece of coat hanger for a
key - now many/most are smooth, adequately fast and non-repetitive. A class
ops are, as a group, more of a problem now...
73, Pete N4ZR
At 02:40 PM 11/7/2005, K0HB wrote:
>While Danny may shoot me for saying it, it's great to see so many QRPers in
>contesting.
>
>But it seems that many of them feel they need to send slooooooow and use
>"words twice" procedure to get their message across. Bad idea, guys.
>
>Send your exchange AS RAPIDLY AS YOU CAN, and avoid the temptation to send it
>twice "just to make sure I got it".
>
>Honestly, in a contest with lots of band noise/competing signals/fatigue/etc,
>you have a short window to get your message to me. More often than not
>(especially with the long SS exchange) QSB or QRM is going to take you out,
>and I'm going to need fills. And even more-more often than not, I won't be
>able to hear the fills, so I give up on you.
>
>"Telling it like it is", the result is that your UBN shows "NIL" for that Q,
>because after the second try you're going to get a quick "R TU" from me and
>I'll do an <alt-W> and move on.
>
>73, de Hans, K0HB
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