Caveat Lector wrote:
Hint to DXers: IF YOU CAN'T COPY CODE, DON'T BOTHER TRYING TO WORK DX ON
CW! That's what SSB and RTTY are for...
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Doug Smith W9WI
Pleasant View (Nashville), TN EM66
http://www.w9wi.com


Can't imagine any one who can't copy the code, trying to work CW DX or a
contest.

Never said anything about contests.

Any contester of value will welcome any CW op regardless of speed. I
would hope slower CW ops would not be intimidated by my high CQ speed
and would call anyway. (I realize that's probably not realistic) I
will happily slow down to match the speed at which you call me.

There was someone on one of the Chilean islands -- CE0X, I think -- who
didn't know Morse, a few years back. He worked a bunch of RTTY. One of
his RTTY contacts realized his terminal unit would work on CW, and
talked this guy into running a CW sked using his TU. That ended up
being far from his last CW QSO. There wasn't much rate -- automatic
Morse decoders are iffy enough with strong interference-free code,
pileups are a big problem! -- but his much-appreciated effort landed a
bunch of CW ops a rare one. And all with an op who didn't know CW at all...

Generally these folks can recognize their call sign at any speed, and with a
memory keyer -- pushing buttons (or keyboarding macros) is what they do to
work CW DX or contesting.

So these folks get befuzzled when the DX sends something out of the ordinary
such as QSO NR PSE etc. or UR ZONE ?

Or someone else's call, apparently.

My problem, quite simply, is with people who call the DX when the DX has
obviously answered someone else. To be honest I highly doubt poor
copying ability is responsible for most offenses. Usually, this crap
results from liddish behavior on the parts of ops whose Morse speed is
quite respectable. (I know I've worked at least three of the lids in
the FT5XO pile in the ARRL CW SS contest at speeds of at least 26wpm.
You don't complete a Sweepstakes exchange unless you're competent at the
Morse speed in use.)

--
Doug Smith W9WI
Pleasant View (Nashville), TN EM66
http://www.w9wi.com