Topband: QSB surfing

Tom Berry tberry1 at triad.rr.com
Sat Feb 14 14:58:21 EST 2009


>
> I have encountered many similar occasions in contest where the station
> also had a 'difficult' call. In order to maintain their qso speed such
> stations would add a tiny space between the critical parts of their call.
> In your case you  could send: KV (almost 1 space) 4FZ.  That puts more
> emphasis on the difference between the V and the 4 in the human brain
> and offers better distinction. At least for me such an approach works fb!
>
> '73 Mark, PA5MW
> pa5mw.blogspot.com
>

I agree with Mark,  My call AA4VV is hard to get through sometimes - I add a
small space between the 4 and the first V and it seems to work much better.
I believe the space comes out to be about a 1.5 character space on the
keyer.

73 Tom AA4VV



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