[CQ-Contest] BOGUS QSO RATES!

[Gerry Hull]

Of course, I use non-phonetics as well.  It's a great technique. The
problem occurs
when the op on the other end does not recognize their own callsign when
not spoken in phonetics (it happens!).  Non-phonetics are great on
a reply, terrible when calling from the pile.

Very-rapid-fire SSB techniques are hard to explain.  There are not
hard and fast rules... you get a feel for what works best in a situation.

I remember as a newbie back in the 70s trying to figure out the callsign
that Pedro, NP4A, then KP4AST, was signing.  He was speaking so fast
I could not believe it.

Jeff (TJ) is even faster, but easier to understand.  I wonder if it's the
accent,
or perhaps I just have better ears now?

Gerry Hull, W1VE


On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 10:33 AM, George Fremin III <geoiii at kkn.net> wrote:

> 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.
>
>
> --
> George Fremin III - K5TR
> geoiii at kkn.net
> http://www.kkn.net/~k5tr
>
>
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