Weight and dash to dot ratio settings for qrq cw copy: what settings are preferred by the majority vote

[Chuck aa0hw]

A recent poll was taken on the front page of QRQcw asking the question by one of our members, Rick, VE3MFN:

"I'm wondering what the consensus is on weight adjustment as one gets over 50 wpm"

4 cw audio mp3 files were made using FLdigi with each file sending cw at 75 wpm at 5.5 ms rise/fall time using Hanning Raised Cosine edges.  Each file had a small change in dash/dot ratio and/or weight settings.

A total of 18 cw ops voted. Results are below:

 

THE WINNING VOTE WAS A TIE BETWEEN FILES 2 AND 4

 - Dash/dot ratio of 3.2 to 1 , tied with default dash/dot ratio of 3 to 1 -

 - all files received a significant amount of votes -

 

Here are the mp3 files:

 

QRQ COPY TEST: WHICH OF THE mp3 CW FILES BELOW SOUNDS THE BEST TO YOU we are testing weight and dot/dash ratio at 75 wpm for your preferences Please listen to these 4 mp3 files(75 wpm) and vote on which one you like best
file 1

file 2

file 3

file 4

RESULTS ARE IN: 18 VOTES TOTAL

FILE 1 =  50 % WEIGHT  2.8 dash/dot ratio   5.5ms rise/fall time(3votes)

FILE 2 =  50 % WEIGHT  3.2 dash/dot ratio   5.5ms rise/fall time(6votes)

FILE 3 =  38 % WEIGHT  3.0 dash/dot ratio   5.5ms  rise/fall time(3votes)

FILE 4 =  50 % WEIGHT  3.0 dash/dot ratio   5.5ms  rise/fall time(6votes)