[CQ-Contest] CW slow? No problem

[Jim Brown]

On 12/2/2017 12:53 PM, Holger Hannemann wrote:
> On 80m we struggled with a number of high speed CW stations.

I find operators from Eastern EU to be some of the worst offenders, and 
to be the least sensitive to conditions. Short path propagation from EU 
to W6 is over the N pole, and is sometimes subject to considerable 
Auroral flutter. Yet when I call one of these speed merchants at a 
slower speed to minimize those effects, they still come back to me at 40 
WPM. Are their egos so large that they think flutter affects my signal 
but not theirs?

Do these guys not realize that many of the smaller stations they need to 
work are in cities and towns plagued by massive RF noise, so that 
slowing down a bit (or a lot) will help them copy? One of these guys lit 
up D4 for years back when I was in Chicago(not the guy(s) who have been 
there in the last decade or so), and he worked so fast that he was 
almost impossible to copy. When I sent him an email, he called me the lid.

73, Jim K9YC