[CQ-Contest] NAQP CW Op Name - Je suis Charlie

Tom Osborne w7why at frontier.com
Tue Jan 13 15:21:09 EST 2015


I'll admit I had to ask for a repeat, but it was because my mind is 
programmed for 3 to 5 characters.  After the 'jesus' I expected 'saves' 
or something as I don't understand french :-)  Think I got it right the 
second time, though after my mind was re-programmed. 73
Tom W7WHY

On 1/13/2015 6:52 AM, w5gn at mxg.com wrote:
>
> Most fun, were the hot-hots sending at 40 wpm (which is about as fast as 99% can copy), who are supposed to be able to COPY EXACTLY WHAT WAS SENT for the name, and who couldn't handle the 13 characters at their own speed, who'd come back with "??"
> so I'd drop the speed by 9 wpm and resend, and they'd still not get it, so I sent a stored message at only 18 wpm with a full space between each letter, and a dozen hot-shots still needed a third or fourth repeat.
>



More information about the CQ-Contest mailing list