Hi Udo,
<< Wouldn't it make sense if the software automatically sent
QTCs a bit slower
than the QSO text?
Maybe also simply double spaces between time, call and number
could help
keep up with full speed. This would be a more significant hint
to when to
hit the space bar.
Europeans, what do you think? >>
Both are sensible suggestions I think, but as you say, what
about Brand X?!
The problem for me is not copying at any practical speed, but
getting it into the keyboard. My best keyboard speed at
acceptable accuracy is about 35wpm, and this is simply not fast
enough to take QTCs at 35wpm because of the brain delay. When I
try "copying behind", Anno Domini has determined that I cannot
retain time call and serial number if anything goes wrong, and
then must ask for a repeat. Perhaps there are techniques to
avoid this problem, but a simulator is a prerequisite. I did
try vocalising the exchange to make it as easy as for an SSB
operator, but in the heat of the contest, that was not
practical. Does anyone have any tips for the keyboard challenged
not in the first flush of youth?!
<< And could TR be made to give a beep when this line appears? I
stare at the
keyboard (not the screen) when entering QTCs and sometimes miss
that it was
the last one. >>
Also a problem, but one trick is to press return twice when
QSLing the QTC. If it is *not* the last this will do nothing,
but if it *is* the last it will QSL QTC xxx/xx. Like you I
*have* to look at keyboard and not the screen.
<< Remember there
is an additional 3 point penalty on every QTC line with a
mistake >>
Is that actually the case. The wording of the rules is not
entirely clear to me. It simply says ( from memory) penalty for
QTCs which cannot be *verified*, which is not quite the same
thing in my book. Perhaps it is clearer in the native Deutsch?
73
Clive
GW3NJW
Written Wed, 18 Aug 1999 17:27
gw3njw@bigfoot.com
clive_whelan@btinternet.com
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