[CQ-Contest] Number, Check, etc

[Ward Silver]

It also does wonders to consider your breathing when confronted with such a long message as in Sweepstakes.  If, before you launch into it, you take a breath, you can say it all in one, well-modulated, well-timed stream.  Otherwise, you have to gulp air somewhere around the end of your call, unless you're going so rapidly that most people can't follow it.  You sound more in-control, you calm yourself, and you don't create wierdly placed pauses and hiccups that work against maintaining a rhythm.  I am always struck by how the Big Dogs are so smooth and even, not flailing around and making mistakes.  Sure, they hurry it up when there's rate to be had, but I never feel like they're about to spin out and go through guard rail. (like I do, hihi)

73, Ward N0AX

> Agreed, Chuck it does work very well.  I had one station say, "You made 
> it sound easy".
> 
> 73, Gerry  K8GT
> 
>> K3FT wrote:
>>What I found, after almost 1500 Q's at N3OC where I opped SSB SS was that
>>the most effective method was to transmit MY exchange with a measured
>>cadence, slow and measured, with pauses in a couple spots.