[CQ-Contest] Speedy CWers

John Unger w4au at contesting.com
Fri May 18 15:01:24 EDT 2001


Or maybe it would be even faster if PED could be set up to emulate TRLog...

73 - John, W4AU


At 12:17 5/18/01 -0400, you wrote:

>I found the same problem when setting the speed in the 70-80 
>WPM range. My brain just stops working after a while. Going 
>slower (60-66 WPM) gives me much steadier runs till the end, and 
>most importantly, copying calls correctly the first time, which gives 
>higher QSO totals in the long run.
>
>Regarding the max. QSO total, I think I"m close to my l;imit, as I 
>can't type any faster. If DEFINEKEY worked in PED and I could 
>move that + key over to ; or ' that would help.
>
>--
>Barry Kutner, W2UP              Internet: w2up at mindspring.com
>Newtown, PA         FRC         alternate: barry at w2up.wells.com


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>From Marijan Miletic" <Marijan at Miletic.net  Fri May 18 20:28:20 2001
From: Marijan Miletic" <Marijan at Miletic.net (Marijan Miletic)
Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 19:28:20 -0000
Subject: [CQ-Contest] Dayton Topics past WRTC
Message-ID: <000701c0dfd0$b2ac45c0$2c48fea9 at pentium>


OC Mauri, I4JMY wrote:

>Among the few parameters that are really possible to check there is accuracy.
>Penalties make very good sense and heavy penalties do punish who hasn't good
>hears and guess qsos .

Computer tehnolgy has made much greater leaps then amateur radio.  Everybody
operates with databases or DX Cluster these days.
Pile-up simulators also help.  Professional CW is dead so the operators are not
as good as they used to be but UBN is definitely down.

73 de Mario, S56A, N1YU




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