Contesting and CW

This year, during FD, I tried contesting a bit on CW. Now I’ll admit my CW stinks. I’m slow, and VERY rusty, so I was using CWGet to back me up, which basiclly means I only got to work strong stations.

I liked it – I liked it a LOT. The QSOs went a LOT faster. Stations actually sent their call sign every QSO! I’ll tell you, it’s a real incentive to actually sit down and practive my morse code. 5wpm doesn’t cut it for contests – contest CW is 25-30wpm, but is VERY stylized – you KNOW what is coming – call sign, and exchange.

Well, it’s time to break out g4fon’s program, and get back to it