Ah, I can only be a REAL CW op if I use a straight key, right? I see now.
And because I hit nails in with my fist rather than using a hammer or, God
forbid, a nailgun it makes me a REAL carpenter, right? Er....
Actually that'd be a great party trick, don't you think? A bit like John
Belushi crushing a beer can on his head in "National Lampoon's Animal House" -
another trick that I've always wished I could do :-)
Dave
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Glad this subject came up! Still more or less being considered young in
this hobby at age 33 going on 23 I hold the highest regaurd for preserving the
foundation of Amatuer Radio. Such as for CW for instance I think it's the most
important mode just for our sole purpose which we can make great use of besides
in emergency communications.
Like many of us real CW operators if there were an emergency and we knew at the
other end of the Red Cross line there were another Ham op. I would hope that if
CW were my last hope at getting a message across i'd have a chance right?
WRONG! I can't wait for them to load up HRD or some other type of program when
I may have a few seconds or minute to get the code across.
"I'm a CW operator" my response "oh yeah! What type of keyer do you use?"
theirs "Keyer! I use a keyboard" What!!!!!!
Folks! Just because you use a keyboard for CW does not make you CW operators
unless you can receive and send CW with some sort of keyer. Any fool can send
with a keyboard, but when put to test can you step up?
My belief and point about the code and no code exams were always about the
points I mentioned above. Plus! The fact that it was the most effcient mode and
comes in handy every time. Those students people always made it about nostalgia
or personal. So now that you have a keyboard and interface CW all of a sudden
is the mode used mostly for many? Gee! I wonder why.
73!
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From: DAVE WHITE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: July 01, 2008 5:17 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; dx-chat@njdxa.org
Subject: Re: [DX-CHAT] Are CW ops getting older?
Ain't nobody getting any younger, Dave! At least if they are, he should
patent his secret and sell it.
On a serious point, I felt that it was always the older members of the hobby
who wished to preserve cw as an entry criterion for the HF bands - something
which I always considered to be ridiculous (no, I'm NOT trying to re-open the
code/no-code debate).
Interestingly, I always said that there was no way I'd ever mess about
operating cw, and only did the test to get my ticket. The mode held no
interest for me at all. But then one day I bought an all-mode TNC at a hamfest
- actually to send/receive RTTY - so I hooked it up to my computer and started
to use it. Incidentally it also worked for cw, so it rather "got me into"
using the mode on the bands just out of interest.
Strangely, I look at my log book these days and I'd say that cw is the mode
that I use the most. As you imply, it's probably an age thing. I still send
from the keyboard, though use Human Brain Mark #1 for decoding. More grey
hairs - of which I now have many - means more cw operating, perhaps?
I shall practice sitting on my porch, barking at passers-by and waving my
stick at passing traffic in between sending with a bug key. Will I then be a
fully-fledged, 100 percent cw op? ......
cheers
Dave G0OIL
David Rollitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
HI,
I recently made a few QSO's during the All Asia CW test, the exchange in the
AA Test is RS(T) and Age for OM's.
Having checked my contacts I found the average age was 49.1!!
I wonder if anyone else checked their contacts this way.
It will be interesting to do the same thing with the SSB test coming up ( I
think) in September.
73
David G3XYP
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