[UK-CONTEST] AFS
G3SJJ
g3sjj at btinternet.com
Wed Jan 24 15:28:22 EST 2007
Aah, Nick, you spotted last night's un-deliberate mistake!! What I
really meant was I won't speed up or slow down ANY part of a message!
Like Bob 5B4AGC said, a UK station trying that in BERU would really look
a P--T. At a top-end rate of say 10-15 Q/H just how many more Qs would
expect!!! Maybe one more Daaaaaah dit dit - dit - dit daaah dit, dit dit
daaaaaah (on your straight key of course!)!!!
73 Chris G3SJJ
Nick Totterdell wrote:
> Chris wrote
>
> "Two things I won't do - speed my callsign up on CW because it might
> deter callers who find it irritating and leave out my callsign in the
> "TU G3SJJ" / Thanks G3SJJ message because I want callers to know who I
> am. Everything else is fair game."
>
> I agree, Chris, speeding up your callsign would be a little
> counterproductive! Talk of "speeding up" is not appropriate; I propose
> that the way forward is to "slow down" the bits that people actually
> have to read (callsign and exchange - particularly in contests such as
> the Ropoco series) but to send the other "noise" (5nn, test, tu, beru,
> etc.) at normal speed. :-)
>
> Nick G4FAL
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