[CW] CW speed

[Stoweboats at cavtel.net]

Vaughan is right....cw is just plain fun...and for those of
the opposite stripe that say CW is dead...not being used
by anyone etc"  I sure would love to send them the logs
of CW stations I have copied in the last 1 yr...and 
according to my graph there has been an increase of
activity of 11% over the last 6 months...at least by the
stations using cw...scanning WJ 8718A/MFP and 
a pair of dual diversity svc WJ 8709s...most of the
clandestine services still use cw...some even bcst 24/7
and of course the random times/freqs people...both
numbers and other methods.  The US Army still trains
cw intercept oprs out at the school in AZ....

I happen to love cw...its been a big part of my life
both commercially/Govt/amateur and I frankly dont 
understand the put down of the mode by those that 
neither bother to learn or use the mode. Would someone
tell me why the most modern SDR rcvrs still have the
mode included (rcvrs made by WJ, Harris, Racal and
others) especially the exotic intercept systems. Sure 
there are better, faster ways to pass volumns of tfc...
BUT for pure reliabality its hard to beat.

ewj
W4EWJ
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "DB Vaughan" <ab4kx73 at yahoo.com>
To: <cw at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 9:11 AM
Subject: [CW] CW speed


> This is great.  Let's make sure we drive out the QRQ
> CW operators and prove to the world that CW is neither
> fun nor useful.    There is one consolation however,
> and that is that when the QRQ ops are driven off the
> ham bands buy what seems to be ubiquitous stupidity,
> then those of us who like to run above 50 wpm will at
> least have the internet to practice our code on and
> have 'QSO's' of sorts.  Maybe this will be a good time
> to dump all my hf junk before the rush.
> 
> AB4KX
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