At 05:32 PM 9/14/2007 -0700, Tom Osborne wrote:
>Hi Warren
>
>There is--every week on Thursday night at 0200 and 0230. From 0200 to 0230
>is the slow speed practice,
Actually, the Slow Speed NS is only 15 minutes, from 0200 to 0215Z. We
usually call "CQ SNS" to differentiate with the normal-speed NS. So you
have a 15 minute break before the "normal" NS. The whole point of the
slow-speed session is to encourage "newbies" to get their feet wet, which
is why the speed is reduced.
> around 20 wpm,
Actually, the maximum "legal" speed is 23 wpm (I believe it was only 22
earlier this year??). In the last SNS, one K7 was answering everybody at
the normal NS speeds of 35+ WPM. I don't think he ever got the idea that he
was going way too fast as he never slowed down despite being so much faster
than everybody responding to him.
Steve, K0XP
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