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

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I sort of agree with you Ken.  I do not know what those things mean 
either (cf  IMHO, YMMV), however, keep in mind that it was CW ops that 
sort of started all of that.  See for example YL, XYL, GG, GN, 73 etc 
etc which are none found in your Q pro list.  Not only that but there 
are among the real pros other Q signs that you won't find in your Q 
sign list because they are not in theirs either.  They just used them.  
Generally they started as clowning around, but in the end they stuck 
for a while.  You did not see them on the ham bands usually though and 
you do not see them on the ship frequencies any more either, do you.  
The basic idea is to communicate effectively and efficiently between 
two ops and that does not always mean they are working some net traffic 
where official pro-signs are the rule.
..
Bill
AC6QV


-----Original Message-----
From: Ken Brown <ken.d.brown at hawaiiantel.net>
To: CW Reflector <cw at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 7:13 pm
Subject: Re: [CW] Re: Digital CW  (was Numbers Stations)

Hi John,
> CW is different, as it's the only non-speech mode intended for human
> generation and reception. I for one would like to keep it that way.
>
>
Sounds good to me. Though I will gladly have a QSO with someone using a
keyboard to transmit or a computer to copy. I suppose I'd rather hear
sterile, perfectly spaced keyboard sending than badly sent, and nearly
impossible to copy CW with a bug from someone who doesn't know how to
use one, or due to something such as Parkinson's cannot send other than
by keyboard anymore. I would not deny someone in that situation the
continued enjoyment of CW, if that is the best way they can do it. I'm
not inclined to use a keyboard myself, except for using a logging
program with canned messages in a contest. My only requirement is that
keyboard senders remember what mode they are using, and use standard CW
pro-signs, Q signals and abbreviations, or plain text. If someone 
(using
a keyboard or not) starts sending "LOL", "IMHO", "YMMV", " :-) " or
similar, the QSO will be over real soon.

DE N6KB

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