[CQ-Contest] When is speed not speedy?

[Joe]

I agree totally, This is where I used to go into the old novice bands 
and run the contest if i was out jut for fun.  Hey I get on the air, and 
make a bunch of contacts, maybe just ATT for the whole weekend or just 
GW, either way it was a lot of fun,

I know the old novice bands are no more, but has some sort of 
gentelemens agreement appeared that equals them?

Joe WBNSBD
On 5/31/2013 2:57 PM, KU7Y wrote:
>> Show some gratitude and slow down, guys.
>
> I spend a good bit of time on a couple of QRP email lists.  There are 
> many folks there that are both new to ham radio and to contesting.  
> One of the things that seems to always come up is how contesting is 
> too hard to break into due to all the fast CW.
>
> Now I understand that speeds do need to be up there a bit to be able 
> to make a good score but.... when we think about things to do to get 
> more people interested in contesting we need to also think about those 
> new folks trying to "get up to speed" and just giving up because they 
> can't copy most stations.... even one letter/number at a time.
>
> I'm not sure just what the answer is but it's seems like a shame to 
> pass up this pool of "recruits".  Maybe if more people would move up 
> the band and cut their speed down to 15ish or so wpm during some of 
> the low rate times, would this help "welcome" the new folks??
>
> After all, these new folks are a good portion of tomorrow's scores if 
> we can get/keep them interested while they get their CW skills up.
>
> OK, back in my hole,
>
> Ron, KU7Y
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