I dont agree that we are losing newbies directly because of CW speed.
There is just less interest and incentive in learning the code to start
with....it has no more commercial/military viability. You have to want to
do it for JUST for fun and games now, which isnt enough incentive for most
to become literate, let alone highly proficient.
It seems the average WPM speed is slowly dropping, with guys sending at
over 35 wpm the exception rather than the rule as it used to be...
I think it would real interesting to see what happened if QSO's got
deleted from the log if EITHER station messed up the exchange. Right now
there is no incentive for the fast guy to slow down and/or correct
mistakes once he has HIS exchange copied... Most will take the time,
but I'm sure some dont.
I also felt that activity from the NE was down quite a bit, but perhaps
that was just band conditions. I'm not used to hearing stations up and
down the East coast on all bands almost all the time!
Ty K3MM
"k7qq" <k7qq@netzero.net>
Sent by: cq-contest-admin@contesting.com
11/05/2002 08:53 AM
To: "CQ Contest" <cq-contest@contesting.com>
cc:
Subject: Fw: [CQ-Contest] CW Speed
Quack's .02
I think that we are loosing Many newbies becauz of CW speed. A friend and
his XYL both hams said that they got on during CQWW CW to try to work
some.
The major problem, was they couldn't even get the call signs of the CQers
.
They both do CW around 15 wpm.
CW is a dying art and its going to have less and less of us to carry on,
I'm not a speed deamond. but when I call some stations that are CQing at
32
, they seem to think they should come back to me at 40. I do get the
info
sometime but, that guy setting there trying to figure out his call and the
exchange info just got lost again. I'm as guilty as the next guy in
cranking at 34/36 w/CQ SS, however I do slow down to the speed that somone
calls.
Last was KL7XX 78=WY 79=VE4 From Illinois.
No fair changing the section in your logs now.
K7QQ/9
----- Original Message -----
From: "Zack Widup" <w9sz@prairienet.org>
To: <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, November 04, 2002 1:23 PM
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Unsportsmanlike?
> On Mon, 4 Nov 2002 tgstewart@pepco.com wrote:
>
> > That's unfortunate...
> >
> > However, it's hard to use a large CW contest like SS to start learning
> > Morse code at speed.
> >
>
> Sort of like getting your feet wet on your first DXpedition by going to
> Heard Island?
>
> I'd really like to go on a DXpedition some day, but I think I'll get
some
> experience by going somewhere like Antigua, Bahamas or St. Kitts.
Perhaps
> a new contester could get his code speed up by participating in smaller
> contests.
>
> Then again, it's attitude that counts ... if you really want to learn
> something, you ignore the setbacks.
>
> 73, Zack W9SZ
>
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