[FQP] [FCG] W4ZW Observations of Relative Signals from the FQP

[W4ZW]

Dan, you seem to be responding to some comment from Lu, W4LT, in the reply,
which didn't make the reflector.

My comment about the "dit dit" was not criticism, but admiration.

I've noticed in many of the huge DXpedition pile-ups the best Ops use this
simple technique at high speed CW to thin the pile.  I should have noted
that I did hear all you guys running at QRS speeds after dealing with the
initial rush.

Great technique in my opinion.  We should all learn from it.

73's from 10,000'


Jon Hamlet, W4ZW/Ø
Breckenridge, Colorado 

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In a message dated 5/2/2011 3:15:07 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
lromero at ij.net writes:

You  observe that some of the CW ops were using dit dit as the  "turnover". 
Let me clarify this.  I was the op doing this from the  N4TO-mobile.  I
would only do it with fast ops on the other end and usually  only at the
start of a county when other callers were waiting.  
 
I did this for maybe a total of less than one hour out of the total 20-hour
operating period, so it was not the standard operating practice.  
 
I totally agree that this scares off the casual "drive-by".  But they  were
not my audience at that moment.  Had you listened to us later  in those same
counties, you would've heard me sign the call 3x at slow speeds,  well under
30 WPM, just to trawl in some of the other participants.  We  want to work
everyone, but it's just not efficient to operate the same way all  the
time...
 
73, Dan, half of Team N4TO