[Trlog] CW speeding up (fwd)

[Pete Smith]

At 04:32 AM 1/8/04 -0800, Eric Hilding wrote:
>Tnx, Jim, as others have pointed out.  However...if Auto CQ is interrupted 
>via ESC or a keystroke, ALT + C to resume thashes that concept and it's 
>"ramp up time" in WPM each-time-the-CQ-repeats!


As a work-around, I believe you can do Alt-Q, reset the key to be repeated 
to F1, and you should get a new "load" of the CW message with symmetrical 
speed up/speed down control characters.

But more to the point, why bother with speed-ups within a very short CQ or 
other message?  I've never understood the utility of sending "Callsign [up 
up up]599 [dwn dwn dwn] 100" anyway.  In bad conditions, all that does is 
to slightly screw up my expectation of when the real variable in the 
exchange is coming.

73, Pete N4ZR
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