This may not be very useful...hi hi... but the comment below reminds me
of something I remember about my late parents. At one time when I was
teenager with a Novice license, my Dad and Mom were away for a couple of
weeks and I kept a CW sked with my Dad in the afternoons. My dear mother
knew no morse code, in fact she hated the sound of it, but she would
hear me calling my Dad and instantly recognize my fist. It baffled and
amazed my Dad that she could do that with no knowledge, interest or
training in CW but she could! BTW, my Dad, who was the original W4HIJ
was a great CW op. One of the best I've ever seen and he hated
keyers...he preferred a Vibroplex bug or his trusty McElroy ball bearing
" stream key" that I still have to this day.
73,
Michael, W4HIJ
On 3/2/2012 10:50 PM, Mike WA8BXN wrote:
I use a keyer 99% of the time. A keyer is impersonal. They all sound the
same, more or less. With a hand key (or a bug), you can add your own
personality. In the olden days, many operators could be identified by their
keying personality alone. In a pileup I can see that a signal with a
personalized keying pattern might be able to be easier to pick out. On a
clear channel, with just a single signal present with a good signal to noise
ratio, they keyer generated code would probably be just as good. On the
other hand, at poor signal to noise ratios a hand key might more easily be
able to emphasize a character that was received incorrectly in a call sign
for example.
73 - Mike WA8BXN
-------Original Message-------
From: William H. Fite
Date: 3/2/2012 10:15:32 PM
To: Robert Logan
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Flexradio] Hand key with 1500
At the risk of being slammed for saying something "not useful," I cannot
Imagine any rationale behind the belief that hand code is more readable
Than keyer code sent at the same speed. That is absolutely counter
Intuitive.
Splainify, please.
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