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  • Category: Shortwave
  • Founded: Aug 14, 2002
  • Language: English
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#145 From: "Alex, VE3NEA" <alshovk@...>
Date: Thu Dec 16, 2004 7:22 pm
Subject: Re: [dxatlas] CW speed curiosity
alshovk
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Hi George,

CW speed calibration in MR is based on the PARIS system. At 12 WPM the dot
duration is exactly 100 ms, at 24 WPM it is 50 ms, etc. I verified the
accuracy of calibration by measuring the duration of the message of known
length.

I am not sure what speed scale is used in N1MM Logger.

73 Alex VE3NEA





> Alex, I finally found some time to try out MR. My first question (of
> more, I suspect): the cw speed is set to 32 wpm. I generally do
> contesting at 34 wpm. However, the sent speed sounded a lot faster
> than 32, more like 38! Stations "came back" to me at around 32. Is
> there a way to verify the speed? I ran a second short test at a MR
> setting of 28 wpm and that sounded to me more like what I hear from
> N1MM Logger at a setting of 34.
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> MR vs. N1MM...which is the REAL cw speed?
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> Terrific program, thank you for developing it, a great skill
> improvement tool!
>
> 73, George W1EBI
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