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Re: [CQ-Contest] Copying exchanges in ARRL DX CW

Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Copying exchanges in ARRL DX CW
From: Chuck Dietz <w5prchuck@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2017 07:19:49 -0500
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My KZ5MM was frequently copied as "K6HMM," half spaces around the "Z" helps!

Chuck W5PR/KZ5MM

On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 2:30 AM, Jim Brown <k9yc@audiosystemsgroup.com>
wrote:

> On Wed,6/14/2017 5:39 PM, K9MA wrote:
>
>> Maybe 6Y2T could QRS just a tiny bit?
>>
>
> YES! Garry, NI6T, has allowed our CQP group to use his call several times.
> We don't send his call at the speed of light. Our club call is W6BX. I
> insert half spaces in both calls to make it easier to copy. W6JTI mostly
> works QRP and mostly CW. He carefully inserts half-spaces in his F-key
> messages. I watched him do it setting up for our team expedition to CM79
> for ARRL VHF. GOOD ops who aren't ego-centered do stuff like that.
>
> A common mistake that EU stations make in DX contests is to bang away at
> 35+ WPM when conditions are causing lots of flutter over a path. Why is it
> that these guys think that THEIR signal doesn't have the same flutter at my
> QTH that mine does at theirs? Did these guys sleep through the fundamental
> principle of reciprocity?
>
> 73, Jim K9YC
>
>
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