[CQ-Contest] Slow code

[Kenneth E. Harker]

     I operated in the CW Sweepstakes at N5XU M/S.  I spent hours and 
hours "running" stations way high up in the bands going somewhere around 
15-17 WPM.  Clearly, I'm not a strong CW operator yet, but I was really 
enthusiastic about the contest, and the only way someone with my code speed 
can make more than a very few QSOs in the CW Sweepstakes is to call CQ.

     A majority of the stations answering my CQs did so going faster than 
I was going by at least 5 WPM, many by a margin of 10 WPM or more.  I had 
to ask for a lot of fills and repeats, but I kept at it.

     I've heard tell that some contest logging programs other than TR LOG 
(what I was using to send CW) cannot send CW any slower than 23 WPM.  If so, 
that could explain a lot.  I find this hard to believe, though, so I have to 
ask: can this really be true?

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Kenneth E. Harker      "Vox Clamantis in Deserto"      kharker at cs.utexas.edu
University of Texas at Austin                   Amateur Radio Callsign: WM5R
Department of the Computer Sciences         President, UT Amateur Radio Club
Taylor Hall TAY 2.124                         Maintainer of Linux on Laptops
Austin, TX 78712-1188 USA            http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/
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