One thing that I noticed from the last sprint was that more stations
seemed to be waiting for a confirmation from the departing op before
pouncing on the one taking over the frequency.
That saved me on a couple of Qs. I don't know if it was deliberate or just
the timing of it, but it did seem that on many Qs, the pileup didn't begin
until AFTER I sent a dit-dit or a di-dah-dit.
If it was deliberate, it's good practice for a sprint.
73, kelly
ve4xt
> From: Tree <tree@kkn.net>
> Date: 2006/09/14 Thu PM 01:15:31 CDT
> To: cq-contest@contesting.com
> Subject: [CQ-Contest] Sending Speed
>
>
> In the recent CW Sprint, I am losing two QSOs (with additional two
QSOs worth
> of penalties) because I didn't QRS enough (or at all). The station I was
> working asked for a repeat - but I didn't hear it with the pileup that often
> occurs when taking over a frequency in the CW Sprint.
>
> There are guys who don't send as fast as the rest of us who can copy
the
> higher speeds just fine, and then there are those who can't.
Sometimes,
> you "guess wrong" on which. There are many clues - including the
familarity
> (or shortness) of the callsign that probably help the operator decide
which
> case it is.
>
> And sometimes you guess wrong and end up losing four QSOs.
>
> Tree N6TR
> tree@kkn.net
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