[CW] 99% correct - but still a failure!

[N2EY@aol.com]

In a message dated 1/9/04 1:39:16 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
gwmoore@moorefelines.com writes:


> Does W1AW still offer proficiency certificates? 

Yes, the code proficiency program is alive and well. W1AW actually pounds out
*more* code practice sessions now than back in the '60s and '70s, and the CP 
certs go up to 40 wpm, while back in those days they stopped at 35. 

>  Or, in keeping 
> 
> with their wimpy image on all things CW, letting it go by the wayside, I 
> wouldn't mind trying my hand at one again.... If anyone knows if they 
> do, please let me know time and freq and I will give it a shot... 


http://www.arrl.org

> wouldn't mind one more piece of wallpaper (as if I don't have 
> enough--hi--) on the shack wall.  I really want to
> participate, if they do, because, since MARS has now consumed about 99 
> percent of my operating time, and MARS, alas, has
> "retired" CW in '96, it sure is fun to get down on the lower parts of 
> the band and pound brass once again.... 

AMEN!

Darn, I miss the mass quanties 
> 
> of CW that could be found everywhere, sadly today, even replaced with 
> keyboard and computer translation. I much prefer my lousy glass arm, and 
> my organic computer, for some real enjoyment.  However, since I also 
> like the warm glow of vacuum tubes, and the violet blinking of Mercury 
> rectifiers, and the blinking of OA2's etc. 

I have all those things every time I put the Southgate Type 7 on the air. 
Except it uses 0A3s, 0C3s and 0D3s. Easier to see the glow, and more colors.

Test or no test, some of us will keep the good stuff alive.

73 de Jim, N2EY


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