[CQ-Contest] BOGUS QSO RATES!

[George Fremin III]

On Tue, Nov 08, 2011 at 09:53:52AM -0500, Gerry Hull wrote:

> At a QSO rate of 450/hr, for example, that is an average of 8 seconds per
> qso.  Very fast english can be spoken at 400 wpm or so, or 6 words per
> second. (Let's assume each phonetic letter is a word)

One of the ways that some ops squeeze a few more contacts into an hour
is to not always use phonetics.  They will do this:


pile: Whiskey Mike 5 Radio

op: WM5R 59 4

And they will do this over and over - not using phonetics when 
calling the stations back - it is much harder to do than you 
would think. 

Listen for stuff like this when you are listening to someone really
going fast sometime.


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George Fremin III - K5TR
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