[CQ-Contest] WHY - and other observed behavior

Pete Smith N4ZR n4zr at contesting.com
Wed Nov 27 06:12:05 EST 2013


I suspect I am not alone- when my CW starts to run into a wall, around 
40 wpm, it is characters with more than 3 dits and no dashes that leave 
me thinking "what the heck was that?"  I was one of those who had 
trouble with Mario's call last weekend.

73, Pete N4ZR
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On 11/26/2013 12:29 PM, Marijan Miletic, S56A wrote:
> Beware of some poor Morse copying so I used on ocassions Z666666/S5666666A
> at 20 wpm to pass my callsign.
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> Someone honestly spoted me as ZB/S56A on 40 m on Sunday evening and dupes
> pileup followed.  Repeating my callsign many times didn't help much.
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> I used proven RTTY practice on low bands of sending HIS 5NN15 HIS callsign
> and even confirming with HIS TU.  Low power helps learning a lot.
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> LP MMM YU/S56A
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