[CQ-Contest] Another grip..... Slow down!

[Charles Harpole]

Hey, there is a HS5 "over here."
I try to set my sending speed a few WPM over the hi speed guys.  Chuckles
hearing them try to get HS.
Charly

On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 11:01 PM, Mike Ritz <w7vo at comcast.net> wrote:

> I am constantly amazed how some stations, especially in EU and the
> Caribbean seem to think that CW contests are High Speed Telegraphy tests!
> They don't realize it, but it HAS to be detrimental to their score, unless
> there are enough stations that can decode 35-40 WPM that it doesn't matter
> to them. What they don't realize is that the fast stations, especially ones
> with a lot of dits, are often going to be copied wrong in the logs, but
> also will be spotted with the wrong callsign as well! I can't tell you how
> many times I saw 6Y1D spotted as BY1D, but it was spotted much more often
> wrong more than right, so that has to be an issue for then
>
> Picking out an EI, or S5 station out of the polar flutter is hard enough.
> Slow down a few WPM, and watch rates and accuracy actually improve!
>
> 73;
>
> Mike, W7VO
>
>
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-- 
Charly, HS0ZCW