[VHFcontesting] CW ops, pse qrs when contesting

[Brent Casavant]

On Thu, 31 Jul 2003, Ed Kucharski wrote:

> One more thing about cw in vhf contests...   I have had many situations
> where I have moved stations from 6 or 2m to 222MHz and up and signals will
> be marginal on phone and I have asked the station I'm attempting to work to
> try cw only to find out that there is no key available, or the key is on
> the other radio etc.  On microwaves especially, cw is a much more reliable
> mode and many more qso' can be made by using cw when the path won't support
> ssb.  My suggestion is to have a key or keyer ready to go on your microwave
> gear and even if your cw skills are weak most of us will be patient and
> slow down enough to make that 2, 3 or 4 point qso!

I have to thank whoever it was who took lots of time to try to work
me on CW back in January when I sent PSE QRS 5WPM.  Unfortunately we
never completed because of the tremendous amount of other CW signals
near us such that I never was sure of the gentlemans call despite
ten minutes of trying.  (In case the OM is on this list, it was on
2m just below the SSB calling frequency, and I was in the N0RPM
limited multi station).

One thing that would help me, as a relatively poor CW operator (but
trying to improve) is if I knew what the standard CW exchange was
for a VHF contest.  I know all the same information as phone will be
passed, but I'm not sure the order to expect the information in or
how many times to expect each element to be repeated.

I find it strange that VHF contesting is my biggest motivation for
improving my code.

Thanks,
Brent Casavant

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