I participate in in the weekly mini-contests sponsored by CWOps, called CWTs. I generally operate in the 1 hour session at 0300 UTC. At that time, most of my contacts will be in North America. Naturally my signal will be weaker there than most of the competition, so I mostly search and pounce. I have found that requests for repeats or miscopies of my call (which is different from what most of the operators are primed to expect) increase rapidly when I call at more than about 27 wpm. Just a data point.
Victor 4X6GP > On 3 Nov 2019, at 3:20, Tony Estep <estept...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 2, 2019 at 6:44 PM EricJ <eric.c...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> ...At 45 wpm, most ham ops need you to send your call three times or >> more... >> > =============== > Yeah, it's pretty obvious that sending a call faster and more times isn't > an automatic way to improve end-to-end communication -- you could send it a > lot of times at 100 wpm and work nobody. There's a tradeoff between the > time it takes to send your call, and the probability that the other guy > gets it correct. There's an optimal point on this curve. > > Most of the players in DX pileups send at a speed under 30 wpm; the DX > station tends to set the pace. After you participate in thousands of > pileups you recognize that the consistently successful DXers have a lot of > skillful strategies for getting their call through, and sending faster is > not one of them. Neither is sending your call more than twice, max. > > DXpeditioners who have been on the other end will attest that there's very > little likelihood of a guy sending at 40 or above having his call copied > among the screaming, howling pile. > > Tony KT0NY > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to k2vco....@gmail.com ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
