[CW] CW - No code - and little code

[k0ng@inebraska.com]

You may be right but I still think anyone who has interest enough to learn
CW and try to work it is welcome on my receiver. I wouldnt mind them testing
to 5 WPM though. (does not include computer CW. A little "Erie Boat Swing"
lets you know if its a computer). Sending yes, receiving no.

DE Charlie,  K0NG  ..

Quoting N7DC@cs.com:

> I dont think 20 percent is reasonable.  For a band like 40 meters, that would
> 
> give us only 60 KC for CW and allow the SSBers all the way down to 7.063 
> (LSB), and thats just here in the states.  If stateside stations were allowed
> that 
> low, guess where the DX, Canadians, and Mexicans would start showing up.  
> What we need are sub-bands with teeth in them.  They should be World-Wide,
> not 
> just US sub-bands, but we are never likely to succeed in that.  
>  
>   I have been saying for months (if not years): Let anyone take a test for 
> HF, without code.  If they want to work code, THEN THEY SHOULD TAKE A CODE
> TEST. 
>  Its the only mode that truly takes skill, and we should earn it before we 
> are allowed there.
> 
> Speaking of skill.  The recent adoption of new international rules, and the 
> not-so-recent downspeeding of CW tests here in the states are really starting
> 
> to show on the bands.  More and more I am hearing extremely low CW speeds on
> 
> the lower parts of the bands, and not only that, much of it is just downright
> 
> unreadable.  I would never pass a Scout for 5 wpm, who sent that poorly, and
> I 
> have tested hundreds.  Last night I heard dozens of Washington State stations
> 
> in SR test.  A few of them were gliding along at 20 wpm or better with an 
> automatic keyer, and when I gave them a call, they came back with the most
> horrible 
> sounding keying possible, with me barely able to understand what they were 
> trying to say.  THEY WERE ALL USING EXTRA CALLS.  Now it may be that these
> were 
> club calls, and they were brand new to CW, but it doesn't lead me to have any
> 
> confidence in our new testing schemes.  By the way, my old buddy Rex - K7QQ -
> 
> Was ripping along at 40 wpm, and when he came back, I could read it.  Rex was
> 
> my very first contact on the bands, and is still putting Washington on the 
> score sheets.  
> 
> 
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