[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

Sun Nov 9 17:37:01 2003

AMEN!!!!!
Sandy W5TVW
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron D'Eau Claire" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, November 09, 2003 4:05 PM
Subject: RE: [Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

| First of all, contest CW is the easiest sort of CW. While "contesting" takes
| a bundle of specialized skills, CW skills aren't among them. 
| 
| Listening to the un-broken high-speed exchanges I have no doubt that I am
| hearing keyboard/computer generated CW and wonder how many of the receiving
| stations use code readers or computers printing out the results on the
| screen... Or even loading the data directly into the electronic log.
| 
| Even if there is someone actually listening and decoding the required
| numbers and call signs, it's a far, far cry from handling traffic or
| carrying on a rag chew in the level of CW skill required, even if the op was
| interested in a real QSO. 
| 
| Ron AC7AC
| 
| 
| -----Original Message-----
| At least in the case of a top-ten  contester that I lived near in 
| eastern MI, he spent non-contest weekends trying to make his station 
| even better.  He had over $100,000 in that station, one weekend at a 
| time.
| 
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