Send something else. I honestly don't remember if I first was licensed in
Dec.of 78 or Dec. of 79. I have always sent 77, just cause it seems easier
to send/copy. Ya know, n7or in or 77 and so on - lots of ORs and 7s going on
there.
On 11/7/06, Mike Coslo <mjc5@psu.edu> wrote:
> D K7GK wrote:
>
> >Since operating in Sweepstakes for the first time a few years ago and
> >falling in love with this contest, I wondered - am I at a real
> disadvantage
> >given that my check is 00 or ten dahs on CW? Finally I decided to do a
> >simple estimate and it goes like this. Suppose my average sending speed
> is
> >32WPM (I typically start at 35 and end up at 29 by the end) and let's
> >disregard the fills. Sending 00 takes 41 dots (from here on dot is the
> >amount of time to send a dit, dah is 3 dots, space between letters is 3
> dots
> >and so on). Sending 78 (average length check) takes 31 dots and sending
> 55
> >(shortest check) takes 21 dots. Using "PARIS" as a typical word for this
> >estimate I get that there are 42 dots in a word and 3 extra dots for
> space,
> >a total of 45 dots. Therefore in a minute there are 32 words or 32*45 =
> 1440
> >dots, or one dot is 1/1440 minutes long. This means that in every
> exchange I
> >lose (41-31)*(1/1440) = 1/144 minutes compared to a check 78 and twice
> that
> >to check 55. Having made about 1200 contacts in the last two sweepstakes
> >this means that I spent 1200/144=8.3 extra minutes on sending long check
> >compared to an average operator and 16.6 extra minutes compared to a
> lucky
> >one. This roughly translates to 7 or 14 QSOs less given the average
> rates. I
> >am well aware that life is not fair (I do contest from the Pacific
> >Northwest), but am I being robbed?
> >
> >
> Perhaps you could try for the vanity call K5EE?
>
> I could only wish that I was good enough that the length of my call sign
> was an impediment to sending CW in contests! ;^)
>
> - 73 de Mike KB3EIA -
>
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