About CW speed and more ...

[G8CPZ]

Hi Guru, I found that discussion.

From memory I thought it was 25+wpm but in fact it was 22wpm - which probably seemed fast to me back then [Q4 '17] when I first started SOTA activations around 15wpm. Now 22wpm seems achievable to me.

SOTA Activations w/ CW

Hi Oleh, It’s true that QRS CW is easier to be copied when the signal is very weak, and I often call QRS (18 WPM) to DX activators with good results. Fast CW when signals are very weak is very hard to copy because any little QRM or minimum QRN crash can smash almost the full character sent (letter, number, punctuation…) QRS code is also easier to be copied by the activator in the middle of a pile-up. However, I personally don’t feel comfortable with activating QRS below 18 WPM, as this exten…