[UK-CONTEST] CW Speed etc...

[Dez Watson]

Thank goodness there is such a diversity on contests!

Generally BERU, sorry, the Commonwealth Contest would demands a 
different approach regarding CW speed to say ARRL DX.
IOTA with it's longer exchange is different yet again.

 From past experience to knock out 4 or 5 thousand qso's in a weekend 
one certainly has to crack on in the mid 30's, faster perhaps when 10m 
and 15m
are wide open, maybe slower on 80m and slower still for 160. Each 
contest, the target area, band conditions, size of pile all contribute 
to the optimum speed -
whatever that may be.

I personally don't have a problem with speeding up the RST, it's largely 
superfluous. And cut numbers, well try learning them - they're almost as 
old as Morse itself, however using them in the callsigns is a definite 
NO NO!

Definitely horses for courses and I tend to sit with Gerry RTN and Steve 
VMW on this one, but many won't.

73

Dez, G3WW



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