The recent posts on QRQ CW and the new CW+ option on the K3 were of special interest to me. A few years ago,during the sunspot low, I decided to improve my CW skills as I could not hear much on the bands out here on Maui with no sunspots! I really got interested in QRQ as a consequence. Chuck, AA0HW, has set up two websites you all might find interesting:
http://groups.google.com/group/i_cw?hl=en a site for sharing thoughts on QRQ in general and:
http://groups.google.com/group/i_cw?hl=en a site dedicated to sending CW over the internet. This has been especially helpful to me out here on Maui where checking into the 40 meter nets in our early afternoon is challenging to say the least.
Joe KH6/W3GW
On 16 June, 2010 Jim wrote:
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Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:54:57 -0500
From: "Jim Miller KG0KP" <
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Subject: [Elecraft] QRQ
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OK, Guys, I'm a newbe to ham(18 years) compared. And I have been avoiding CW until the past few months (after passing my 20 word test for my extra(16 years ago!)). This spring I started Triple Play to force myself to get serious on CW and it has been uphill all the way but I am gaining on it (still missing 15 states CW on LOTW).
QRQ? High speed CW ?? OK, so how do you get to 60 or 100 WPM anyway? PC or at least keyboard input? I can't imagine accuracy for copyable code being input via paddle above maybe 40 wpm or so. Also, PC for decode even up to 100 wpm or is that by ear !!! ?
Also, during the contests I sometimes hear cw going so fast all that is heard is "thumping", there is no tone whatsoever being transmitted. Do I have something set wrong or are some radios prone to transmit like this? These are not close in stations (579 or so) so it shouldn't be overload and backing off the rf gain doesn't make it any different.
Thanks, de Jim KG0KP
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