From: "Mike Dennison" <mike.dennison@ntlworld.com>
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Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 14:36:50 +0100
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On 14 Aug 2004 at 19:27, John Andrews wrote:

> Mal's comments aside, "QRSS" arose as a way to differentiate CW described in
> words per minute from the slower variety best described in seconds per dot.
> "QRSS3" unambigously meant CW sent at 3 seconds per dot. There is nothing
> official about it, and no attempt has ever been made to incorporate it into
> the amateur radio lexicon. I believe that the discussion originated within
> the U.S. "lowfer" community, but I'm sure that Alberto will jump up and
> correct me if I'm wrong.

I originated the term QRSS many years ago in an e-mail to 
this group. It followed the syntax of the existing 'QRPP' 
which meant 'lower power than conventional QRP'. It was 
necessary as we were constantly typing "extremely slow 
Morse" and other long phrases. 

The helpful addition of the number to denote the dot length 
came much later when slower speeds became popular for 
working DX, but I don't know its origin.

Rik, ON7YD, and others have used the generic term Visual 
CW which can also include DFCW. 

Mike, G3XDV
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