[UK-CONTEST] CQ WW CW operating techniques

[David, G3YYD]

Dave

May be it was not your ears but the TX - QSK causing an element to be 
missed. I note the only dash element was just before the first element 
of "V", which may have had an impact as the previous elements came 
through OK but they were all dot elements. In other words a TX fault. 
The more comment fault is a missing dot at the start of a callsign e.g. 
that exciting OA is in fact a JA. Or closer to home a JE0 is in fact a 2E0.

I have just been reading an IARU paper about contest adjudication that 
seems to indicate that often the RX station is not at fault when it 
comes to logging errors. In other words the TX station was incorrect 
while the RX station received it correctly but the TX station logged did 
not show the TX error. Now I will confess I have in the past sent in 
phone contests the wrong serial number and not noticed till I worked the 
next guy.

73 David G3YYD

Dave Sergeant wrote:
> On 2 Dec 2009 at 14:57, Ron Price wrote:
>
>   
>> So does anyone else have a similar problem, and have you found a cure
>> for it?
>>     
>
> I suspect most of us suffer from this to some extent. I certainly do, 
> and I am very comfortable copying at 35wpm. On Saturday I worked ES5TV, 
> a well known contest station who I have worked often in the past. I 
> convinced myself that he was actually sending ES5TU, maybe he was or 
> maybe it was my ears - I even went to the extreme of checking on 
> qrz.com that ES5TU was non existent. Later I heard him sending slightly 
> slower and very clearly ending with a V.
>
> At the end of it don't worry as long as you are working stuff. And if 
> you send in an entry you will get a feedback from CQ of all your 
> errors, judge how you did on that...
>
> (and everybody seems to log me as R3YMC or N3YMC due to their slow 
> changeover..).
>
> 73 Dave G3YMC
>
> http://www.davesergeant.com
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