I still do CW traffic handling, qsk is really important to me. That’s the reason I plunked down m money for the K4.
Tom W4KX Sent from my iPad > On Jun 11, 2020, at 1:56 PM, Bob McGraw K4TAX <rmcg...@blomand.net> wrote: > > Not being a high speed CW op nor a contest CW op, I find that QSK is, well, > just very nice. I don't need to hear between the CW elements, nor even the > letters, but more so in between the words. Some ops have a clean fist but > run all the words together. No spaces. Drives me nuts. > Itwouldbelikemewritingthismessageandnotputtinginanyspaces Now that just > doesn't work with my brain. > > As to break-in or full QSK, I see it much like a conversation occurs in a > room. There's thoughts shared back and forth between participants and does > the allude to swapping ops. Yet, one can operate semi-QSK with the same > style and results. Seems that after all, once CW speed gets above certain > points, hearing between CW elements and words become non existent. > > After 61 years as a ham, starting as a Novice in 1959, I'm becoming a fairly > good CW op and likewise enjoying it. I use it largely to stimulate my old > slow brain. > > 73 > > Bob, K4TAX > > > > >> On 6/11/2020 11:59 AM, Al Lorona wrote: >> I have always felt as K9ZTV does. >> >> I don't mean to speak heresy here, and I would never deny anybody's right to >> use full QSK, such as when chasing DX. However, I have never felt the need >> to hear between dits. Between characters or words seems more than enough for >> me, especially at the CW speeds where most people exist. Plus, I've always >> felt it was rude to be interrupted during a transmission for anything other >> than an emergency. One time, when I was a novice, the other guy suddenly >> broke in frantically: MUST QRT QRT LOST BIAS. That was definitely a valid >> emergency. I could almost smell his final getting red hot and hear the plate >> current pegging the meter that evening. >> >> Al W6LX >> >> >>>>> For any practical purpose needed by amateur radio operators that I can >>>>> think of, the ability to hear between elements is not a life-and-death >>>>> virtue. The ability to hear between characters is by far magical enough. >> ______________________________________________________________ >> Elecraft mailing list >> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft >> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >> Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net >> >> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html >> Message delivered to rmcg...@blomand.net > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to w...@mac.com ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
