[UK-CONTEST] AFS

[G3SJJ]

Yeah, I couldn't afford the other dit!!

You could observe that I made a right cock-up of that thread!!

Chris G3SJJ


Cooper, Stewart wrote:
> G3SJJ said...
>
>   
>> Maybe one more Daaaaaah dit dit - dit - dit daaah dit, dit dit
>>     
> daaaaaah (on your straight key of course!)!!!
>
> DERU?
>
>
> de GM4AFF
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com
> [mailto:uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com]On Behalf Of G3SJJ
> Sent: 24 January 2007 20:28
> Cc: uk-contest at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] AFS
>
>
> 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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