120/hr before or after you take into account all the 'not in log' dings
you're going to get hit with ??
-W9RM
Keith Morehouse
via MotoG
On Sun, Mar 21, 2021, 11:08 AM Bill Olson <callbill@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Yikes, not to get bogged down in minutia, but has anyone made 2 FT4 QSO's
> per minute for any extended period of time in a contest? like 120 per hour?
> If so I probably need to rethink what I am doing here! Don't want to get
> into an argument here, just interested in some real world numbers
>
> bill, K1DY
>
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> Keith - I am sorry I didn’t make my point clearer.
>
> Let me clarify and absolve you from ever having made that claim and
> explain where it came from.
>
> In an earlier post, Marshall had lamented that a good operator could make
> 4 or 5 SSB/CW QSOs in the time it would take to make a single FT4 QSO. He
> had mentioned you as a good op in that post, which you are. Now an FT4 QSO
> takes 30 seconds, so 4 QSOs in that time frame would be 8 a minute, or 480
> an hour. Five would be 600 an hour. I know you can do 200 an hour, so I put
> the two points Marshall made together along with my personal knowledge of
> your capabilities.
>
> The broader point I was trying to make, which I guess got lost, was that
> it doesn’t really contribute to the discussion to exaggerate the situation.
>
> Again, sorry I did not make it clear that what I was addressing did not
> come from you.
>
> James Duffey KK6MC
> Cedar Crest NM
>
> > On Mar 20, 2021, at 10:06, vhfcontesting-request@contesting.com wrote:
> >
> > but, I have NEVER made any claim whatsoever of running the
> > kind of rate mentioned in that paragraph. 200/hr is easy when conditions
> > allow, but I don't know where that other number came from. Certainly not
> > from me.
>
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