[VHFcontesting] VHFcontesting Digest, Vol 219, Issue 9

[Bill Olson]

Yikes, not to get bogged down in minutia, but has anyone made 2 FT4 QSO's per minute for any extended period of time in a contest? like 120 per hour? If so I probably need to rethink what I am doing here! Don't want to get into an argument here, just interested in some real world numbers

bill, K1DY

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From: VHFcontesting <vhfcontesting-bounces+callbill=hotmail.com at contesting.com> on behalf of JamesDuffey <jamesduffey at comcast.net>
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Subject: Re: [VHFcontesting] VHFcontesting Digest, Vol 219, Issue 9

Keith - I am sorry I didn’t make my point clearer.

Let me clarify and absolve you from ever having made that claim and explain where it came from.

In an earlier post, Marshall had lamented that a good operator could make 4 or 5 SSB/CW QSOs in the time it would take to make a single FT4 QSO. He had mentioned you as a good op in that post, which you are. Now an FT4 QSO takes 30 seconds, so 4 QSOs in that time frame would be 8 a minute, or 480 an hour. Five would be 600 an hour. I know you can do 200 an hour, so I put the two points Marshall made together along with my personal knowledge of your capabilities.

The broader point I was trying to make, which I guess got lost, was that it doesn’t really contribute to the discussion to exaggerate the situation.

Again, sorry I did not make it clear that what I was addressing did not come from you.

James Duffey KK6MC
Cedar Crest NM

> On Mar 20, 2021, at 10:06, vhfcontesting-request at contesting.com wrote:
>
> but, I have NEVER made any claim whatsoever of running the
> kind of rate mentioned in that paragraph.  200/hr is easy when conditions
> allow, but I don't know where that other number came from.  Certainly not
> from me.

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