[AMRadio] I'm finally back on CW

[Michael C. Marx]

Not me!  I am on the air with CW using a set of gold dust twins, ranger, viking 2, nc303, sx28, etc.  Love em.  I even run some contests and dx with them.  Long live cw and boat anchors.

I will say one thing that I find disturbing.   In 1976 I was 15.  Most people that I worked were older than me (although I did work other teens).  Now that I am 52, STILL everyone that I work is older than me.


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-------- Original message --------
From: Rob Atkinson <ranchorobbo at gmail.com> 
Date: 08/16/2013  6:41 AM  (GMT-06:00) 
To: Discussion of AM Radio in the Amateur Service <amradio at mailman.qth.net> 
Subject: Re: [AMRadio] I'm finally back on CW 
 
Sadly, the CW world as almost completely abandoned vintage radio gear
for modern plastic radios.  It is very paradoxical to me, since CW is
a mode that probably lends itself to vintage equipment as much as AM.

Now there are more and more ops on CW who let a computer send and
receive for them and consider it one of may data modes.   If you use a
bug, they can't copy.

I've had QSOs on CW with my T-50 and had ops tell me they have never
worked a station running an old tube rig before, or have not heard one
on the air for decades.

I think the continued study and operation of vintage homebrew and
commercial gear on AM has helped hold the AM fraternity and culture
together,

Such a thing once existed in the RTTY world, with the old FSK, and
surplus Kleinschmidt gear, but a lot of that was devastated by the
fact that anyone with a plastic AFSK radio and PC can operate RTTY.
The Greenkeys vintage RTTY movement is an attempt to recover what was
lost and I wish them well.

I hope AM never finds itself in the same fix.

73

Rob
K5UJ
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