[CQ-Contest] PSE QSY - Deer in headlights

[W0MU Mike Fatchett]

Pat,

I would be one of those guys.....Don't ask me something at 35 wpm in a 
contest.  I am lucky to get the QSY requests.  Sad but true. I am 
certainly not near a conversational cw op.

Mike W0MU

On 2/25/2013 7:30 PM, Aldewey at aol.com wrote:
> Pat;
>   
> You response comes the closest to expressing my exact feelings on this
> subject.  I could not have said it better.
>   
> Being in MT, I suspect you get a lot more requests than I do here in  MN.
>   
> 73,
>   
> Al, K0AD
>   
>   
> In a message dated 2/25/2013 8:24:49 P.M. Central Standard Time,
> n9rvee at gmail.com writes:
>
> George,
>
> I was asked to QSY quite a bit in the ARRL  CW.   I am happy to comply but:
>
> 1. Often times I couldn't  react at all simply because I was running a very
> fast rate on the other  radio.  No time to say anything other than SRI.
>
> 2. Some times I  get the "deer in headlights" in reverse when I just as
> snappily tell the  guy asking that I am already on 14.031.5 when he's trying
> to ask me to move  to 14080.
>
> I learned a long time ago that there are a number of quite  famous
> contesters who simply cannot converse on CW beyond the standard  exchanges
> and requests for fills.  So it stands to reason that there  are many, many
> more casual ops in the same boat.
>
> -  Pat
> N9RV
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