On 2022-11-10 21:21, Bill Lederer wrote:
That is pretty impressive.
When I was first a ham, one of the locals was W7QYA, Flo, a school
teacher
not far away. I had managed to crank my speed up to 40 (with some
struggle)
but she said that was painfully slow for her. Her nominal speed was 65
That is pretty impressive.
When I was first a ham, one of the locals was W7QYA, Flo, a school teacher
not far away. I had managed to crank my speed up to 40 (with some struggle)
but she said that was painfully slow for her. Her nominal speed was 65
wpm. I have yet to get much above 40.
On Thu,
Wow!! Awesome post. Thanks for sharing this. Sent from my T-Mobile 4G LTE Device
Original message From: Wayne Burdick Date:
11/10/22 1:46 PM (GMT-05:00) To: Alan Geller Cc:
Elecraft Reflector Subject: Re: [Elecraft] QRP and
contesting Funny story Last Field Day my son
Funny story Last Field Day my son and a friend of his went camping with our
group. Neither of them are CW operators (yet), but they did know the alphabet.
They borrowed a MCU-controlled code-practice generator from another op and were
competing to see who could copy single letters at the
Jim,
I can't argue with that logic, I stand corrected!
73, Rocco - WU2M
On Thu, Nov 10, 2022 at 1:02 PM Jim Brown wrote:
> On 11/10/2022 8:14 AM, Rocco Conte wrote:
> > No offence guys but shouldn't this be on a contest reflector and not the
> > Elecraft reflector?
>
> No, the folks on that
Yea Wayne, thats the terrific Elecraft attitude that keeps your customer base
strong and loyal.
Its called, “ lets all have fun and learn something” Hooray for the serious
high speed ops, a
Lot of ex Navy guys, but its pretty easy to spot the slow lane and ease back
into the fast lane.
Happy
On 11/10/2022 8:14 AM, Rocco Conte wrote:
No offence guys but shouldn't this be on a contest reflector and not the
Elecraft reflector?
No, the folks on that reflector know this stuff. :) It's the casual
contesters who don't.
73, Jim K9YC
No offence guys but shouldn't this be on a contest reflector and not the
Elecraft reflector?
On Wed, Nov 9, 2022 at 6:49 PM a**@sbcglobal
wrote:
> By the way, Jim, in case you were wondering, you sounded absolutely superb
> here in KY. And you were not one of the offending Big Guns. I
Definitely agree. I regularly operate in the CWops CWT activity at
0300z, which is 0500 local time for me in the winter. I am limited at
that time to 40m (I don't have an antenna for 80/160 and the higher
bands are deader than a doornail).
The majority of my contacts at that hour are with
In the presences of a lot of background noise (as on 160m) slower speeds
can sometimes improve readability. Your ear/brain benefits from being
able to integrate the tone over the noise. Some years ago I did some
experiments with that here:
http://www.ab7e.com/weak_signal/mdd.html
* On 2022 09 Nov 17:32 -0600, Jim Brown wrote:
> On 11/9/2022 3:18 PM, j...@kk9a.com wrote:
> > Al, if you called CQ at 30WPM and they answered at 45WPM and you had to ask
> > for repeats, you are not the lid!
>
> In my experience, the greatest abuse of wildly excessive sending speed has
> been
This is all good contesting advice Mike, especially regarding working dupes.
Thanks for the SS QSO,
John KK9A
Mike Dodd N4CF wrote:
I'll toss in my two cents
I have fair-to-middlin' CW skills, and I've operated a lot of CW
contests. I was surprised and disappointed to hear so many
On 11/9/2022 6:18 PM, j...@kk9a.com wrote:
Al, if you called CQ at 30WPM and they answered at 45WPM and you had
to ask for repeats, you are not the lid!
I'll toss in my two cents
I have fair-to-middlin' CW skills, and I've operated a lot of CW
contests. I was surprised and disappointed
By the way, Jim, in case you were wondering, you sounded absolutely superb here
in KY. And you were not one of the offending Big Guns. I mean, yes, you’re a
Big Gun but no, I didn’t have you in mind during my rant. You know what I mean.
:^)
Al W6LX/4
> On Nov 9, 2022, at 6:
> Great advice,
On 11/9/2022 3:18 PM, j...@kk9a.com wrote:
Al, if you called CQ at 30WPM and they answered at 45WPM and you had to ask
for repeats, you are not the lid!
In my experience, the greatest abuse of wildly excessive sending speed
has been in DX contests, mostly by Eastern EU ops, whether at home or
Al, if you called CQ at 30WPM and they answered at 45WPM and you had to ask
for repeats, you are not the lid! If they were running at a higher speed
that you're comfortable with, you probably could figure out their info from
QSOs before and after you. If it is not copyable you just have to move
On 11/9/2022 2:31 PM, Al Lorona wrote:
I mean, 30 WPM with no repeats is actually faster than 40 WPM with some repeats.
Great advice, Al. My friend N6TV, who has won SS several times, starts
out in the 30s, but slows down towards the end of the contest. Nearly
all of my operation was 26-28
How about an online counter for ‘Please Copy’. {coming to SSB soon}. Need a
quarter jar for that one…..
-AJ | NK4O
> On Nov 9, 2022, at 5:31 PM, Al Lorona wrote:
>
> This issue is a kind of double-edged sword that cuts not only newbies with
> bad fists, but Big Guns with fists that are,
This issue is a kind of double-edged sword that cuts not only newbies with bad
fists, but Big Guns with fists that are, well, *too* good.
I noticed this opposite phenomenon as soon as CW SS got started. It seemed that
the average CW speed was way up this year. (I hadn't operated the SS in a
What stuff.
If you are going to operate with a key, you should have practiced enough
beforehand to be able to send the entire exchange without an issue. One repeat
at most.
That is all Jim is complaining about: be minimally competent.
73, Byron N6NUL
On Tue, Nov 8, 2022, at 9:04 PM, Victor
Jim,
The alternative is that if one is new to CW (or to ham radio at all),
he/she should not operate in the Sweepstakes, and just let the
experienced ops have their fun. I'm sure you would not prefer that!
73,
Victor, 4X6GP
Rehovot, Israel
Formerly K2VCO
CWops no. 5
http://www.qsl.net/k2vco
No, you don't win
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>> Original message From: Wayne Burdick
>> Date: 11/8/22 6:41 PM (GMT-05:00) To: Andrew Moore <
>> andrew.n...@gmail.com> Cc: Elecraft Reflector
e From: Wayne Burdick
> Date: 11/8/22 6:41 PM (GMT-05:00) To: Andrew Moore <
> andrew.n...@gmail.com> Cc: Elecraft Reflector
> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] QRP and Contesting Andrew Moore <
> andrew.n...@gmail.com> wrote:> For many of us...the joy of contest
* On 2022 08 Nov 16:33 -0600, Jorge Diez - CX6VM wrote:
> looks like someone is having a bad day
No. Jim's comments are very apropos. I am a causal contest op and I
always use a logging program with keying simply because it is the most
efficient means for me to do so and I have a very lousy
(to be clear: I have great respect and admiration for the hard-core CW
contest ops and their high speed skills)
NV1B
..
On Tue, Nov 8, 2022 at 6:27 PM Andrew Moore wrote:
> Hi Jim -
>
> Among the best ways to get better at something is to practice, and often a
> better way is to practice
4G LTE Device
Original message From: Wayne Burdick Date:
11/8/22 6:41 PM (GMT-05:00) To: Andrew Moore Cc:
Elecraft Reflector Subject: Re: [Elecraft] QRP and
Contesting Andrew Moore wrote:> For many of us...the
joy of contesting> is keying by hand and taking
Andrew Moore wrote:
> For many of us...the joy of contesting
> is keying by hand and taking notes on paper...
I'm in this group. Casual contest operation, usually QRP, mostly CW, and almost
always logging by hand.
I greatly appreciate all of the very serious ops out there who approach this
Hi Jim -
Among the best ways to get better at something is to practice, and often a
better way is to practice while jumping into a live scenario (as opposed to
simulated or offline) before you're reasonably proficient. I wouldn't
recommend that approach for learning how to fly an airplane or
looks like someone is having a bad day
we should create a contest only for smart people hi hi hi
even those who seem to be intelligent are wrong, who will have to do this
with Elecraft to publish it on this list?
73,
Jorge
CX6VM/CW5W
El mar, 8 nov 2022 a las 19:16, Jim Brown ()
escribió:
>
On 11/8/2022 1:55 PM, Jerry Moore wrote:
And that is why a lot of hams are afraid of getting one the air with cw.
Elitist ops.
An op who expects a caller to be able to send a two or three digit
number in less than a minute is NOT elitist! An op who expects someone
entering a contest to check
uesday, November 8, 2022 4:49:45 PM
To: Reflector Elecraft
Subject: [Elecraft] QRP and Contesting
I made more than 1,000 QSOs in Sweepstakes this weekend, and the most
frustrating, by far, were from a couple of dozen QRPers who 1) never
heard of dupe checking; and 2) sent by hand with pretty lousy
I made more than 1,000 QSOs in Sweepstakes this weekend, and the most
frustrating, by far, were from a couple of dozen QRPers who 1) never
heard of dupe checking; and 2) sent by hand with pretty lousy fists.
Late Sunday evening, while calling CQ on another band, I waited a couple
of minutes
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