Well, it took me some time to realize that lot's of cw ops out there
really weren't so involved with their phase locked loops that they felt
the need to begin many of their sentences with PLL. But don't get me
started on poor sending or I'll have to start my rant about
peoplewhodonotspacebetweenwords. Argh.
best wishes, and a great holiday season to all,
dave belsley, w1euy
On Dec 21, 2004, at 11:25 AM, Vic Rosenthal wrote:
Dan Barker wrote:
Anytime you are practicing sending (or sending on the air for that
matter),
it can be extremely enlightening (or depressing, depending on your
fist) to
hook up a CW reader (I use CWGet) and look it over after your
session. I
find it very helpful with spacing.
Poorly spaced CW is by far the hardest kind to copy. Have you ever
heard the 'banana boat swing?" This describes a form of bug sending
in which the number of dits in a letter is more or less proportional
to the speed! No problem, I can copy it. Or the 'Lake Erie swing',
also a bug phenomenon, in which you can imagine the operator timing
his code to the rolling of a ship: "daaaaah di daaaaah dit DAT dah
didah" (yes, the 'DAT' is intentional).
Thanks to keyers, these phenomena are only rarely heard today, but
what we do have is operators who run letters and words together. For
example, I have a friend whose call apparently begins with "YH" (he is
in California, see if you can guess what he is trying to send).
Run-on word spacing is even worse, leaving my head spinning.
--
73,
Vic, K2VCO
Fresno CA
http://www.qsl.net/k2vco
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