[UK-CONTEST] ARRL CW

[Clive GM3POI]

I too subscribe to riding the speed control, in my 
case roughly between 27-30wpm.
    I find that the last 10 limit has more to do with 
the amount of callers than the sending speed. I seem 
to remember that Frank LPL uses about 28 wpm and 
thereby catches a lot of slower speed contesters.
    I didn't have a problem from a rig point of view 
during the contest. What concerned me was the amount 
of crappy signals that were about  and in particular 
those containing multiple frequencies. I found that 
from a strong signal point of view I could easily 
work 500hz aware, but usually there was a spurious or 
two every few hundred hertz. Often these were down at 
the sort of strength the weaker West coast stations 
would come in at.  I fear that some are using audio 
tones to key there rigs and not low distortion ones 
at that.  73 Clive GM3POI
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dennis Andrews, F5VHY" <f5vhy at wanadoo.fr>
To: "UK-Contest" <uk-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2010 6:52 AM
Subject: [UK-CONTEST] ARRL CW


>I have to disagree with Gerry on this one. I rarely 
>send at more than 30wpm in contests and never use 
>speeded up CW. I have the PageUp and PageDown keys 
>progammed to change the sending speed - and use this 
>a lot. This way, there is a minimum amount of 
>failure to copy. With higher speeds, there is far 
>more ? ? where others can't copy your call or the 
>exchange. It also will put many people off calling 
>all together - unless they are responding to a 
>packet spot - in which case, they are all zero-beat 
>on the same frequency (having hit F6 or whatever to 
>transfer the spot freq to the transceiver) apart 
>from the smart ones who realise that they need to 
>offset by a fraction.
>
> I don't consider this, in any way, detracts from 
> QSO rates. In the ARRL last weekend, my 10-minute 
> rate meter was frequently up to 300 and I had 
> plenty of instances of 5 QSOs in the same minute.
>
> I think you will find that Clive - GM3POI 
> subscribes to the same ideas.
>
> 73 de Dennis - F5VHY/TM6X
>
> PS - my trusty FT1000MP didn't seem to notice too 
> much problem from "wide" signals - heaven forbid 
> that the K3 has a problem!
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