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From: "Rik Strobbe" <rik.strobbe@fys.kuleuven.ac.be>
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At 16:57 29/12/01 +0000, G3KEV wrote:
>In spite of the slow qrs speed the duration of each qso was reasonably
>quick.
>QSO using 60 sec dots - took 60 mins approx to complete including
>callsign and RO acks.
>                   3  sec dots -           3 mins
>                   2  sec dots-            2 mins
>                   1  sec dots-             Althought John copied some
>of the callsign the limitations of ARGO at this speed, hand sent speed,
>did not permit a proper xband QSO. The dots and dashes were connected up
>and virtually unreadable, Johns comment. .

Hello Mal,

very glad to see that your successes in QRSS, congrats for the crosband QSOs.
I am just a bit puzzled by the QSO times given by you as just transmitting
your call (G3KEV) at 1 min/dot would take 58 minutes (50 minutes if you use
a 2/1 dash to dot ratio).
Maybe since January 1st there is a 3/1 conversion rate between the UK
minute and the Euro minute ;-)

But the main thing is that you made the QSO, regardless wether it took 1, 2
ot 3 hours. Once again my congrats to you nad John.

73, Rik  ON7YD