[CW] CW/Iambic/Modes Theories.

Mon, 20 Jan 2003 02:11:50 -0500

Pedro,

If you're like most people, you chose to use a keyer to send better and
faster - or at least faster.

When you start sending quite fast or you want to send perfect code, you look
for ways to improve yourself - this is what Mr. Curtis did with the Curtis
chip and Mode-A.

He put togther a way to send better and perhaps faster code.

The many people who have two lever keys never have actually sent
"iambically".

When using the iambic method of sending, you can send the letter C with one
squeeze - and most other letters with one squeeze - or two finger grabs -
also.

I am happy you grabbed it and learned!  I did that too - but then I wrote
down the letters and learned the sequence to do the letters iambically - I
thought it was "too much work" at first, but afterwards I knew it was worth
it.

It makes a good challange for a code operator.

73

DR
David Ring
N1EA

----- Original Message -----
From: "Pedro J. Santa" <[email protected]>
To: "David J. Ring Jr - N1EA" <[email protected]>; "Tom Pennebaker"
<[email protected]>; "Richard Hamlin" <[email protected]>;
<[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, January 19, 2003 9:55 PM
Subject: [CW] CW/Iambic/Modes Theories.

> Hi all CW fans here:
>
> All of this sounds nice, but was of no use whatsoever for me when I just
> grabbed the Iambic and keyer technology and started making rapid and
> reliable CW QSO's.  Sometimes theory--when it comes after you learn in
> practice--is useless surplusage and sometimes--when it comes before you
> start to practice--it's just a retardant agent in the development of new
> skills.  This dialogue about Modes A and B just proves that for me; I just
> don't need this kind of BS at this stage of my life; and never needed it
> before either. It is just academic nonsense that won't help anybody do
> anything of any substance in the real operation of our stations.
>
> 73 Pedro KP3X...
>
> p.s. CW is forever....!!
>