Posted: 2/2/2014 4:32:19 AM EDT
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Last night I made a fast QSO with a new one that is always in demand. He's a meat processor. He pulled my call out of the pile, spit it back out to me so fast I didn't get to see if it was right, got a 5x9 and a QRZ.
It makes me wonder if it's worth risking postage for a QSL card. How did he manage to log it so fast? I think this was just another case of an operator that has a job in some remote location just getting on the air to work a pile up to gratify his own ego that he's a popular guy or something. We'll see how this one works out. 
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He pulled my call out of the pile, spit it back out to me so fast I didn't get to see if it was right, got a 5x9 and a QRZ. It's an even bigger challenge on CW. Most of the operators on the major DXpeditions are going 30-35 wpm. Throw in a weak signal, some QSB and a massive pileup, and you better be real good at hearing your own call sign. I screwed it up more than once when I first started, but have now become pretty comfortable working in those conditions. It will keep you on your toes. 
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It's an even bigger challenge on CW. Most of the operators on the major DXpeditions are going 30-35 wpm. Throw in a weak signal, some QSB and a massive pileup, and you better be real good at hearing your own call sign. I screwed it up more than once when I first started, but have now become pretty comfortable working in those conditions. It will keep you on your toes. Quoted:
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He pulled my call out of the pile, spit it back out to me so fast I didn't get to see if it was right, got a 5x9 and a QRZ. It's an even bigger challenge on CW. Most of the operators on the major DXpeditions are going 30-35 wpm. Throw in a weak signal, some QSB and a massive pileup, and you better be real good at hearing your own call sign. I screwed it up more than once when I first started, but have now become pretty comfortable working in those conditions. It will keep you on your toes. Back in 2002-2003 in the Army we had a computer program that sent and received CW much like PSK31. All I had to do was set the transmit speed and type. I didn't need to log anything, because the entire conversation was logged to a TXT file. You sure these other operators aren't doing something like this? It doesn't take a lot of processing power to do CW on computer, an iphone, android phone, netbook, etc all have more than enough, so a FT817 + an android phone on a mountain top would yield some impressively fast work. |
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Back in 2002-2003 in the Army we had a computer program that sent and received CW much like PSK31. All I had to do was set the transmit speed and type. I didn't need to log anything, because the entire conversation was logged to a TXT file. You sure these other operators aren't doing something like this? It doesn't take a lot of processing power to do CW on computer, an iphone, android phone, netbook, etc all have more than enough, so a FT817 + an android phone on a mountain top would yield some impressively fast work. Quoted:
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He pulled my call out of the pile, spit it back out to me so fast I didn't get to see if it was right, got a 5x9 and a QRZ. It's an even bigger challenge on CW. Most of the operators on the major DXpeditions are going 30-35 wpm. Throw in a weak signal, some QSB and a massive pileup, and you better be real good at hearing your own call sign. I screwed it up more than once when I first started, but have now become pretty comfortable working in those conditions. It will keep you on your toes. Back in 2002-2003 in the Army we had a computer program that sent and received CW much like PSK31. All I had to do was set the transmit speed and type. I didn't need to log anything, because the entire conversation was logged to a TXT file. You sure these other operators aren't doing something like this? It doesn't take a lot of processing power to do CW on computer, an iphone, android phone, netbook, etc all have more than enough, so a FT817 + an android phone on a mountain top would yield some impressively fast work. Oh yes, they are using computers, but I'm not. I copy by ear and send by hand. Check out this youtube video of how a contest operator works. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Cx5hj3T_Fo |