At 06:59 PM 5/28/01 -0400, Tom Rauch wrote:
>
> > George, W2VJN did measurements at the highest practical Morse code speed
> > for direct human copy of 40 wpm. Dot pulses are less then 20 msec short
> > and 10% rise and fall times is a good engineering practice shaping. Rest
> > of the problem is mainly in the RX AGC circuits...
>
>George and I are talking off the reflector. I'm sure we will either
>agree or agree to disagree with good reason soon.
I hope Tom, George et al will pursue this and publicize their conclusions.
I also hope they will reach a consensus, because there are a lot of us out
here who are less technically adept but want just as much to tame our
clicks if we can. Right now, I wouldn't know what to do -- but maybe soon
we all will!
73, Pete N4ZR
No, no ... that's WEST Virginia
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>From Leigh S. Jones" <kr6x@kr6x.com Tue May 29 03:30:14 2001
From: Leigh S. Jones" <kr6x@kr6x.com (Leigh S. Jones)
Subject: [CQ-Contest] New Contest
References: <3AF6E897.576722AF@harborside.com>
Message-ID: <069701c0e7e7$4b3ca0a0$ede3c23f@kr6x.org>
I disagree. This contest would not be fun. While I appreciate
innovative ideas when they could potentially add to the contesting
arts, I nonetheless can recognize a bad idea when I hear it.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Osborne" <w7why@harborside.com>
To: "CQ-Contest" <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, May 07, 2001 11:25 AM
Subject: [CQ-Contest] New Contest
>
>
>
> Hi All
>
> Had lots of time on my hands at the campground this weekend.
> Thought of a good new contest.
>
> 1. The contest period would consist of any 1 hour period of a
> pre-determined 12 hour contest period.
>
> 2. The log would consist of only 1 contact.
>
> 3. The winner would be determined by the station that worked
> another station the greatest distance from his location.
>
> 4. The distance between your location and the other stations
> location would be computed using the short path distance,
> regardless of which path was used.
>
> 5. You can call CQ or answer a CQ. If you call CQ, you don't
> have to answer a station unless you think this might be the
> winning contact. This gives other stations a chance to work you
> for their best DX. If you answer a CQ, you can only answer 1 CQ,
> hoping that this will be the winning contact. You can send in
> either of these contacts for your official log.
>
> 6. Packet assistance is NOT allowed.
>
> Think about it, this could be fun!! 73
> Tom W7WHY
>
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