Topband: CW speed

[Eric Scace K3NA]

    I find the choice of speed in adverse conditions depends 
on the nature of the adversity.

    For normal signals but lots of static crashes, faster 
sending helps.  This was the case when I was at VK9ML.  My 
biggest problem was collecting all the characters in a 
callsign between the tropical noise crashes.  People who 
sent slowly never had enough time to get a letter to fit 
into the fraction of a second of lesser noise.

    When I'm the DX, I try to send at the speed at which I 
want to hear responses.  If I am sending quickly but still 
working stations slowly, that probably means a situation 
such as the above.

-- Eric