[CQ-Contest] Here come dots (or at least dittitus)

[RT Clay]

Turn down your transmit sidetone to minimum level (or even off completely). That gives you a little more "quiet" time throughout the contest.

Tor
N4OGW

--- On Fri, 11/6/09, N7DF <n7df at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: N7DF <n7df at yahoo.com>
> Subject: [CQ-Contest] Here come dots  (or at least dittitus)
> To: cq-contest at contesting.com
> Date: Friday, November 6, 2009, 8:01 AM
> Rearranging the letters of "the morse
> code" spells out "here come dots"  but that doesn't really
> have to do with "dittitus", the very real and annoying
> aftermath of listening to CW for 24 hours or more in a
> contest.
>  
> It usually takes two or three days for every little noise
> to quit sounding like CW; clocks ticking, birds chirping,
> mysterious things that go dit and dah in the night, etc.
>  
> I have tried a lot of things to cure it but nothing seems
> to work better than a few straight shots of tequila.
>  
> Does anyone else have a better idea?
>  
> 73
> Larry
> N7DF
> 
> 
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