Topband: Contest conditions

[W0MU Mike Fatchett]

I ran into a number of CQ loops.  I figured they went to the head and 
decided to hold their Freq.  Not cool.

W0MU


On 11/28/2016 3:45 PM, Tree wrote:
> I was also struck with one station who was calling lots of CQs with no
> answer - with the word "TEST" at the end about 10 WPM faster than the rest
> of the transmission.  Nothing like changing your speed to help someone who
> is having a hard time hearing you figure out what is going on. :-)
>
> Reminds me of a story I have shared perhaps before...  it's almost hard to
> believe this is true - but I was there.  Back in about 1975 - when I was
> living with WB6VZI (now N6VI) I strung up a very low dipole on 160 meters
> and this is when VS6DO was pretty active.  One station (I forget who) was
> having a tough time getting through the noise - and was going back and
> forth trying to get their callsign across.  They got so determined - that
> they eventually sent their call phonetically - on CW!!  Wow.
>
> The other morning - I had a weak JA call me - and I had all but one letter
> of their callsign.   When they tried again - they sent the missing letter
> about 4 or 5 times - and quickly got in the log.
>
> There are good ways and bad ways to deal with noise.  My personal
> experience is something in the mid 20's works pretty well for code speed -
> and certainly not sending at different speeds or superfluous information.
>
> Tree N6TR
>
> PS: Stew Perry is less than 3 weeks away!!
>
> On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 2:32 PM, Mike Waters <mikewate at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Well, we can look forward to the ARRL 160 and the Stew Perry, where the
>> average speed is considerably slower.
>>
>> 73 Mike
>> www.w0btu.com
>>
>>> One problem I frequently encountered was DX stations sending CW way too
>>> fast. When a station is just out of the noise with fast QSB, as many
>>> frequently are, they're really hard to copy if they're going 45 wpm,
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