[CW] RE: CW Digest, Vol 15, Issue 8

[Mike Hyder -N4NT-]

Hack, K4KP, told me that a computer could not copy a sideswiper (cootie). 
Hack was right.

Mike N4NT

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Geiger (NE0P)" <ne0p at lcisp.com>
To: <cw at mailman.qth.net>; "Sedlack Tom-CTS050" <Tom.Sedlack at motorola.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2005 8:42 PM
Subject: RE: [CW] RE: CW Digest, Vol 15, Issue 8


Actually I think I am going back to sending with a straight key, so only 
humans who can copy code can receive me.  No more machine copy by non-CW 
operators.

73s JOhn NE0P
20 WPM extra since 1983


---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Sedlack Tom-CTS050 <Tom.Sedlack at motorola.com>
Date:  Thu, 21 Jul 2005 16:05:06 -0500

>
>
>From: "Joe" <joecot at superlink.net>
>
>Another Slant On it...
>With no more code tests,  maybe there will be less new licensees who think
>they can send when they really can't and the ones who can't now will slowly
>fade away, leaving the cw sub-bands for us guys who enjoy cw and can
>actually send and recieve..
>
>
>Well, there's the attitude that would make people want to learn code.
>
>They could keep practicing into a dummy load until their fist was perfect 
>and, only then, would the be "allowed" on the code sub-bands. An occasional 
>string of dots would be a thing of the past.  Perfect code for Joe to copy, 
>yet who would be sending it? There are no perfect fists.........
>
>Tom - AC9TS
>One who knows how to send a series of dots with the best of 'em!!
>