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DKUK

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Sample CW QSO??
« on: February 22, 2001, 11:45:55 AM »

Is the following a good example of a QSO for the 5 WPM morse code exam or are abbreviations and other cyptic cw terms used? (like THX for thanks, ANT for antenna, or HW for how). If they stretch it out like the following qso, the exam can be pretty easy to fumble through, filling in the letters that you miss for 1 minute solid copy. I would appreciate any comments.
 
VVV VVV KZ7SK/8 DE KD2QXU = R AND THANKS JOAN. ANTENNA IS BEAM 37 FEET UP. RIG IS HEATHKIT SB1400 AND RUNS 230 WATTS. I LIVE IN ROCHESTER, NEW YORK. NAME IS CURT. RST IS 569. HOW COPY? KZ7SK/8 DE KD2QXU + *
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AB8JZ

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Sample CW QSO??
« Reply #1 on: March 04, 2001, 09:53:15 PM »

It's been a while since I took mine, but that looks pretty typical.  Be ready for the abbreviations, though, just in case.  But other than that, you're right on.  Just depends on who gives the test, where the content originated from (i.e. computer generated, prerecorded on tape, etc.).

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K7TAR

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Re: Sample CW QSO??
« Reply #2 on: October 13, 2021, 09:37:01 PM »

IMHO this is far from a standard CW QSO… perhaps OK for 5WPM test but still very long and not optimised. It could be easily cut in half using standard abbreviations and Q-code designed for that purpose. Receiving this in real life would be pretty difficult if not painful at any speed.
You will never hear anything about guy’s rig before both of you exchanged and acknowledged the basics - RST, QTH, Name - then you might get into the “rig” description, but that’s optional in 99% of the exchanges. I’m surprised the guy hasn’t told you about weather in Rochester NY before giving you your RST. RST is the starter, if he can’t hear you or you can’t hear him, everything else besides QTH and Name is “optional”… but if both of you exchange with 599, and there’s no “Rush”, you can exchange your ‘rig’ info like this:
DE KZ7SK FB JOAN MY RIG IS HK SB1400 230W (seriously?)/ MY ANT IS BEAM (3 EL? 2 EL?) HW? BK
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AE5X

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Re: Sample CW QSO??
« Reply #3 on: October 14, 2021, 04:02:41 AM »

I don't recall ever sending a series of V's as a preamble to a CW QSO and have never sent an equals sign.
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N6XJP

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Re: Sample CW QSO??
« Reply #4 on: October 14, 2021, 07:18:46 AM »

And then I looked at the original Date!  Oh my how I miss it.  Passed my Extra in 1990. 
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W4KYR

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Re: Sample CW QSO??
« Reply #5 on: October 14, 2021, 07:52:56 AM »

Is the following a good example of a QSO for the 5 WPM morse code exam or are abbreviations and other cyptic cw terms used? (like THX for thanks, ANT for antenna, or HW for how). If they stretch it out like the following qso, the exam can be pretty easy to fumble through, filling in the letters that you miss for 1 minute solid copy. I would appreciate any comments.
 
VVV VVV KZ7SK/8 DE KD2QXU = R AND THANKS JOAN. ANTENNA IS BEAM 37 FEET UP. RIG IS HEATHKIT SB1400 AND RUNS 230 WATTS. I LIVE IN ROCHESTER, NEW YORK. NAME IS CURT. RST IS 569. HOW COPY? KZ7SK/8 DE KD2QXU + *

This is roughly the format of how I remember the ARRL code tests back in the early 1990's.

There were a series of VVV VVV before the actual code tests.

I'm pretty sure there were prosigns and stuff like /, BK, BT, ?, 73, period and comma. Also the weather was often included. Snowy, rainy, clear, cloudy and also the temperature.

Also antenna height and type were included in the tests . "Ant is dipole up 50 feet" (Or something like that)

I don't recall if 'thanks' was abbreviated to thx or tks.

Also I believe other abbreviations might have been used to, like "So hw?" or So hw cpy?"

It's been 28 and 29 years since I took all three code tests 5 wpm, 13 wpm and 20 wpm.  But that's roughly how I remember them.

The VE team would play a cassette running five minutes and you had to get a certain number of characters in one minute perfectly or get 7 out of 10 questions correctly to pass.

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