[CQ-Contest] SS and Voice Keyer CQ Messages

[Dave Edmonds]

Thanks Mike...

I also operate from a spare bedroom and that's why I do much better on cw
for the 2 day contests...  4 am running voice contest can be difficult...

Dave WN4AFP..
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On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 4:29 PM, Mike Smith VE9AA <ve9aa at nbnet.nb.ca> wrote:

> Hi Dave,
>
>
>
> I won't be on this weekend, HOWEVER I have on occasion used prerecorded
> letters to spell out callsigns and prerecorded SSB reports.  Yeah, it
> sounds
> funky.
>
> The reason *I* have done it is to keep peace in the house.  My shack is in
> a
> bedroom between other bedrooms, so me screaming my lungs out saying "SS" at
> 2am
>
> is really cool and all, but not really appreciated by those trying to
> sleep.
> (and who aren't hams, so really don't "get it" anyways)
>
>
>
> Other reasons (that come to mind) is perhaps someone that cannot speak for
> whatever reason. (throat cancer, bad cold, primarily speaks another
> language
> but knows enough to enter a English centric contest etc.)
>
>
>
> I laugh at them too (to myself) but having tried it 2 or 3 times in the
> past
> 4 or 5 yrs, I totally understand.
>
>
>
> I primarily do CW contests and the SSB ones I enter usually have to "end"
> at
> ~9pm local here.
>
>
>
> Try to keep an open mind (everyone)
>
>
>
> -         - . . .     . . . - - Mike VE9AA dit dit
>
>
>
> Mike, Coreen & Corey
>
> Keswick Ridge, NB
>
>
>
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