I always slow my report down for both the SS and the Sprint. It always
saves me time over the course of the contest. In the Sprint I might send
the exchange 4 WPM slower than I'm sending normally. My CQ's in the
Sprint always go out 2 to 4 WPM slower. It always pays off.
73
Bill
On Sun, 7 May 2000, John T. Laney, III wrote:
> Yes, it COULD be such a problem. Once at NQ4I, we had RF feedback
> problem on 80 such that the other stations couldn't even get our call
> whether computer sent or not. (The most common guess was NG4E.)
> However, Jay did not have that problem in SS last year. Neither did
> W4AN and there were still a lot of guys who didn't get it right and
> didn't ask for a repeat. The only way I know to improve that is to slow
> down the sending speed, but that may cost you QSOs. Of course, you may
> try varying speeds of the exchange to slow down only the parts that
> people generally have trouble copying, but I'd prefer that all parts of
> the exchange be sent at approximately the same speed. An extra space
> before or in a difficult part of the exchange may help. 73, John,
> K4BAI.
>
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