[CQ-Contest] WPX CW Signal Quality Concerns

[Jeff Blaine]

This is no different than having a car that can exceed the speed limit.  
Is it the fault of the car maker for providing car capable of excess 
speed?  Or is it the fault of the driver.

The responsibility lies solely with the operator.  I know this is 
probably a quaint concept given the larger cultrial trend abrogating 
personal responsibility, but fundamentally it's the job of the operator 
to run his station properly.  And that includes using slow rise times 
for rigs that provide such adjustment.

Having said that, having the adjustment range covering this lower rise 
times does make it easy for trouble as I know personally. NC0B kindly 
sent me a note mentioning that I was clicking like crazy on a 160m 
contest once.  Turns out I had never reset the rise time after doing 
some testing a few years ago for K9YC on my rig - specifically looking 
at occupied bandwidth vs. rise time foot prints.  But even in this case, 
it is not the fault of the rig maker that I had the rig set up 
improperly.  It is mine alone.

73/jeff/ac0c

alpha-charlie-zero-charlie
www.ac0c.com


On 6/6/20 1:37 PM, donovanf at starpower.net wrote:
> That's an excellent step forward Bud. There's no excuse for intentional
> key clicks but that's exactly the place where the Japanese manufacturers
> have intentionally put us in 2020.
>
>
> The current generation of Japanese transceivers are making key click
> problems much worse than before. Our only hope is that contest
> sponsors improve their rules and enforce them against contesters
> taking advantage of the fast CW rise time menu options in their radios.
>
>
> Manufacturers are completely irresponsible with their 4 millisecond
> default CW rise times and egregiously irresponsible with menus
> options that allow users to select 1 and 2 millisecond rise times.
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> Kenwood and Yaesu provide completely unacceptable 1 and 2
> millisecond rise time menu options and Icom is almost as bad with
> their 2 millisecond menu option.
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> Why are ARRL and the U.S. distributors not communicating with our
> Japanese equipment manufacturers about the problems they're causing
> and enabling?
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>
> 73
> Frank
> W3LPL
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>
> From: "cqwpx director" <cqwpx.director at gmail.com>
> To: cq-contest at contesting.com
> Sent: Saturday, June 6, 2020 4:58:15 PM
> Subject: [CQ-Contest] WPX CW Signal Quality Concerns
>
> I have received two (2) actionable complaints of signal quality issues
> during WPX CW, which are both under review.
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> We will investigate additional signal quality concerns. Please provide the
> call to be reviewed, along with the date, time and band of the observed
> signal quality issue.
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> 73,
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> Bud Trench, AA3B
>
> Director, CQ WPX Contest
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> web: <https://cqwpx.com> https://cqwpx.com
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> email: <mailto:director at cqwpx.com> director at cqwpx.com
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