From: "Mike Dennison" <mike.dennison@rsgb.org.uk>
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Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 10:17:23 -0000
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Subject: Re: LF: 10 sec. dots
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ON7YD wrote:
> Saturday afternoon I was in the shack and had ARGO running (at 3sec/dot)
> while being otherwise occupied. at 17.50 I saw a very faint interruped line
> on 137701, 'T' copy at best. It seemed 10sec/dot QRSS to me, so I switched
> ARGO to 10sec/dot and the faint line became a 'O' copy signal of what
> seemed the end of a QSO as I could just copy : 'TNX E E SK'.
> Conclusion : 10 sec/dot can make a real difference over 3 sec/dot (from 'T'
> to 'O')
> Question : who's transmission did I catch ?

This was Brian, CT1DRP, signing with me. We changed from 
3s to 10s dots as copy was marginal. The difference was huge 
as can be seen from 
http://www.lf.thersgb.net/gallery/ct1drp.htm

The downside was, of course, the time it took to exchange the 
most basic info. Yes, I know I should be using DFCW . . . .


Mike, G3XDV (IO91VT)
http://www.lf.thersgb.net