[CW] ARRL Survey--

John Rippey w3uls at 3n.net
Wed Jul 14 20:19:20 EDT 2004


I get a kick out of seeing photos in QST and elsewhere of CW contesters 
hunched over a keyboard and staring at a monitor. Dullsville. To me, it 
ain't CW when 99% of the time you are typing in someone's call sign and 
pressing a function key to respond automatically with the call sign and the 
standard exchange. Of course, the contesters have to able to read CW at 
high speeds, but still . . .

So I'm glad to see that a keyboard is not used by most CW types. As for the 
non-CW hams, they are missing a big part of ham radio IMHO.

73,
John, W3ULS



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