[CW] Re: Digital CW (was Numbers Stations)

D. Chester k4kyv at charter.net
Fri Sep 12 15:40:05 EDT 2008


>>   Computers can send and receive cw, and at very high speeds,
>> lower speeds are more noise immune.
> >
> Then why bother with CW.  If they were going to use computers, why not 
> just
> go to a digital mode such as Packet/RTTY, PSK?

> Danny Douglas   N7DC

I have often asked the same thing myself when I hear  hams talk about 
"working" each other on cw, when each one is sending with a keyboard and 
receiving with a code reader.  One of the modern digital modes, designed for 
the purpose, would be much more efficient.

Don  k4kyv



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