Slow Code Watering Holes?

[wd4lst-2]

Three field days ago, I was getting frustrated with all of the fast cw myself. after about midnight local, when the initial rush had settled down, I tuned to the upper edge of 40 cw (~7060), found an open spot and started calling at about 10-13 wpm. It took about 15 min. to get a first reply, then for the next hour or so I had all but a slow code pile up. Did the same for fd 2005. This year, our club had a new cw op that was doing his best at about 5wpm. He couldnt get in edgewise at first, but we tried the same technique, and got him his first cw qsos -(on a K1 at that)
You might try that technique for fd 2007. Maybe we could start a trend.
-Pete

Pete Axson
WD4LST
17901 NE 18th Ave
Citra, FL 32113

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[Stephen W. Kercel]

Pete:

Good idea. We'll definitely try it next time.

73

Steve
AA4AK


At 04:35 PM 6/27/2006, [hidden email] wrote:

>Three field days ago, I was getting frustrated with all of the fast
>cw myself. after about midnight local, when the initial rush had
>settled down, I tuned to the upper edge of 40 cw (~7060), found an
>open spot and started calling at about 10-13 wpm. It took about 15
>min. to get a first reply, then for the next hour or so I had all
>but a slow code pile up. Did the same for fd 2005. This year, our
>club had a new cw op that was doing his best at about 5wpm. He
>couldnt get in edgewise at first, but we tried the same technique,
>and got him his first cw qsos -(on a K1 at that)
>You might try that technique for fd 2007. Maybe we could start a trend.
>-Pete
>
>Pete Axson
>WD4LST
>17901 NE 18th Ave
>Citra, FL 32113
>
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[Darwin, Keith]

Peer group pressure.  Don't ya' love it!  People are struggling to keep
up with 25 to 30 wpm yet we stay there.  I've often thought it would be
interesting in a contest to vary the speed depending on the size of the
pile up.  Fast for a large pile, slow for no pile.  There's just no
benefit in calling CQ FD over & over at 30 wpm.  Slow down to 12 and
pick up the slower S&P operators who would not have called you at 30.

I *almost* did what you suggested - calling CQ FD slowly.  I was
eyeballing the novice portion of 40 meters but just didn't.

Ironically, I didn't find the CW to be all that fast this year.  I was
sending at 15 to about 22 wpm.  Of course I guess it is all relative.
15 wpm is flying for some people.

Yea, I like the idea of starting a trend.

- Keith KD1E -
- K2 5411 -

-----Original Message-----

started calling at about 10-13 wpm ... Maybe we could start a trend.
-Pete
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