[UK-CONTEST] CQWW 160 CW - G3SJJ

[Chris G3SJJ]

I totally agree with you Stewart. It's intelligent operating to vary the message speed occasionally. If there are no punters at high speed there may 
be some at a lower speed. I guess big contests like CQWW are different in that activity levels are so high there are always callers.

As with the speeding up rubbish, continuous high speed sending seems to eminate from eastern Europe. I think there are two reasons contributing to 
this 1) There are far more CW operators in those countries so Q/H rates are higher and more sustainable and 2) They are more competent at sending and 
receiving at high speed. I think many of those countries still have compulsory military service. If you listen to the short Russian WSEM contests the 
speed and rates are very high. I once called EF8M (I think) being operated by one of the top Russians. He had no problem in getting my callsign at 
around 50 wpm.

By the way, I initially chickened out calling HG1S on Saturday evening as I also had difficulty in deciding if it was HG1S or SG1S!!! Later I decided 
it was HG1S as that is a regular contest callsign!

73 Chris G3SJJ




On 31/01/2012 10:37, Stewart Bryant wrote:
>    If you are CQing you don't need to save time, more importantly CQing
> is your
>> marketing ploy where you attract the punters so a good robust CQ is best.
> +1
>
> As a station who's CW skills are marginal at best, but was out to give
> a few points away, I would really suggest that stations that are calling
> CQ and not working back to back callers slow down a bit, at least to the
> point where it's easy to tell an S from an H from a 5.
>
> It might be an ego trip for an OP to demonstrate that they can send
> and receive at 35+ WPM, but points from casual stations that
> cannot copy at those speeds are just as valuable as points from
> those that can.
>
> Stewart/G3YSX
>
>
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