Great reply Rick
I fondly remember my novice days at 6-7 wpm in my first contest. I had a
XTal as close to the bottem of the 15 Mtr. novice band I dared to go and my
slow CQ was answered by a lot of contest stations. and my speed slowly
began to pick up. I worked most of the major contests mostly on 15 meters with
my 5 el Gothem beam I added 10 ft to the 20 ft boom "30 Ft" and made the
spacing better. I hung on to my novice ticket with the goal of DXCC but when
my 2 years were almost I had only 85 worked and abt. 78 confirmed, But I
had WAS, WAC, and WPNX #56 They are my proudest Awards!! I then went to
Detroit and came back with My Advanced. My old beat up pickup never got below
5
ft all the way back to BirchRun,!!!!
ED K8OT
In a message dated 11/24/2011 12:05:08 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
k6xt@k6xt.com writes:
Great advice Rick. In my post I should have added something about
eradicating every nonessential dit from the exchange.
73 Art K6XT~~
Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm.
On 11/24/2011 9:35 AM, Richard (Rick) Karlquist wrote:
> The biggest problem with working slow speed stations in
> the ARRL 160 is that I leave the frequency "unattended"
> for too long, and risk having an east coast station
> fire up his CQ machine. To mitigate this, the slow
> speed station should send the minimum number of characters:
> "5NN SV". Please don't send QSL, 73, BK, etc. Please
> don't wait several seconds before coming back to me.
> Be prepared for me to send "TU" as soon as I hear your
> section. If you can't copy my call at my CQ speed,
> send "CALL?". Otherwise, I will send your exchange slow
> but assume you managed to copy my call despite the high
> speed. If sending with a straight key, please err on
> the high side of the 3:1 dash to dot ratio, and please
> leave appropriate spaces between characters and between
> RST and section. Conditions for QRS stations tend to
> be friendlier higher in the band and later in the contest.
>
> CU on the air next weekend when we "Occupy 160 meters", hi.
>
> Rick N6RK
>
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