[AMRadio] Cw

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Good point Lee.  I need to get off my duff and look around for this.  I
guess I will end this by saying AM and CW rules, at least for me....!

Thanks & 73
Brian



On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 5:40 PM, L L bahr <pulsarxp at embarqmail.com> wrote:

> There is a fair amount of slow speed CW activity in the old 40 Meter
> Novice band between 7100 and 7125 kHz.  Many there are running old boat
> anchor Novice rigs, some newer QRP rigs, Ameco AC-1 clones as well as
> Paraset clones.  Lot of old timers there with hand keys as well as some
> newer hams who are not speed demons with CW and just learning it.
>
> Lee, w0vt
> Houston/Coldsring, Texas
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> I am surprised to read that.  My experience has been that 99 out of
> 100 CW ops are running plastic radios, maybe even faking it with
> computers and can't even copy code.  I have operated my Knight T50 and
> had the other guy ask what's that, or tell me he hasn't heard a class
> C rig with a choke filter power supply in years--decades.  I got one
> of the FISTS newsletters at Dayton or maybe it was another hamfest,
> and there was an article in it about running old tube rigs and the
> author bemoaning the fact that no one knew what he was talking about
> when he described his tx by the tube lineup.
>
> Anyway, I have immensely enjoyed both my TAC CP510 bug I fixed up last
> spring, and my TO Keyer and (from the same period) gray base Vibrokey
> paddle.   Once the TO Keyer is working properly, it is a real pleasure
> to use.  Anyway, I hope the vintage CW operating takes off.
>
> 73
>
> Rob
> K5UJ
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