On Mon, 1 Dec 2008 03:19:52 -0800 (PST), Julian, G4ILO wrote: >A couple of stations lost out on a point from me because they were sending >so fast that neither the K3 nor I could copy them. Why do people do this? >Surely the number of contacts lost because people like me who are not CW >wizards just can't copy them must negate the benefit of any time saved?
Some of the worst offenders are those with big stations who fail to realize that many of those stations they would like to work are hearing them in the noise, or with propagation flutter, and that QRQ is defeating them. The guy who had D4B was an example (not D4C). A guy with all dits in his call, or an unusual prefix should be sending slower, not faster. I consider them LIDS! BTW -- I had my K3/KRX3 on for 29 hours of CQWW, and it sure is sweet. 400 Hz filters in both RX. Interesting propagation from several locations on 20M caused very strong echoes that ran characters together to the point that I couldn't copy them at all. One example was about 1800Z Sunday for signals from anywhere NE USA and eastern Canada (that is, W1, W2, W3, VE1, VE2, VE3). Around 2200Z I was hearing it on a few JA stations. I'm about 70 miles S of San Francisco and use wire dipoles, so I don't have directivity to protect me from secondary arrivals. I also used to hear this in Chicago on EU stations around 1500Z, also with wire dipoles. I suspect that the mechanism for this might be a fairly strong long path signal favored by their beam and a direct path to me off the back of their beam. 73, Jim K9YC _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [email protected] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
