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Re: [CQ-Contest] Serial # contests, speed?

To: Mike Smith VE9AA <ve9aa@nbnet.nb.ca>
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Serial # contests, speed?
From: "rjairam@gmail.com" <rjairam@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2019 22:05:47 -0400
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Automatically have software go slower to send the exchange.

73
Ria, N2RJ

On Mon, 11 Mar 2019 at 21:58, Mike Smith VE9AA <ve9aa@nbnet.nb.ca> wrote:
>
> For contests like RDX and WPX where the exchange is a serial #, do you:
>
>
>
> .       Go as fast as always. (34-36wpm) , risking your qso partner busting
> the #,but keeping rate high.
>
> .       Go a bit slower (30-32wpm), hoping the QRS improves the copy &
> reduces busted exchanges.
>
> .       Send everything just as fast as normal (whatever that speed is), but
> use brackets <<>> (a la N1MM) to slow down JUST the serial #
>
> .       Slow down only for obviously slow callers
>
> .       Something else?
>
>
>
> Inquiring minds.
>
>
>
> I don't want to skew the results, so I won't say (yet) what I do. (and who
> knows if what I do is even 'right')
>
>
>
> Mike VE9AA
>
>
>
> Mike, Coreen & Corey
>
> Keswick Ridge, NB
>
>
>
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