[UK-CONTEST] ARRL CW

[Colin Wilson]

All

Interesting story John what with the BERU up next for us, as an ex 
professional I recall you should not TX faster than one can RX!  I too have 
experienced this on many a CW contest and its not clever nor is it good 
practice.  On the other foot many call in faster than you TX and expect to 
be read!  None of this will encourage new CW ops to take part in contesting 
so we need to remember that not everyone can read 35wpm and you are 
therefore probably missing some points! For me I think a good  CQ rate is 
between 26-28wpm, most can read this with ease and its fast enough to keep 
your rates up but every now and then slow it down so others that maybe 
struggling stand a chance of getting your call and giving you some extra 
points!

Just a thought, now I will get my hard hat on and standby for the flack!
73

Colin G3VCQ/J38CW
www.sheffield-live.co.uk

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "G3LZQ John" <johndunnington at johndunnington.karoo.co.uk>
To: "Chris G3SJJ" <g3sjj at btinternet.com>
Cc: <uk-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 2010 1:21 PM
Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] ARRL CW


> Chris/Clive although not on full time and
> pretty much all S&P...I did note many times
> that many stations CQ'n at a rate of knots
> 30+ could never get my call first time unless
> I sent it at around 20wpm. The slick op's did
> every time even at 35wpm.
> I did wonder if they were using readers and
> not brains to read CW. Another observation
> was weak stations calling CQ rarely had
> multiple callers but loud and spotted were
> often a mess particularly from real W7-land.
>
> 73
>
> John G3LZQ
>
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