[Elecraft] Starting CW Conversations

Thu Oct 30 09:51:01 2003

One suggestion I have is to dispense with the "wx-rig" stuff on your second
transmission and ask the other op a question. It could be about his (or her)
hometown or maybe his occupation or whatever. That often results in a decent
conversation.

Another thing I try to do is to look up the other op's call on QRZ.Com and
see if he has a page there. (Of course, you need a computer in the shack to
do this.) If so, I try to find something on the page to comment on or ask a
question about. That has worked pretty well, too. I just wish more hams
would put up information there.

73!

Dan KB6NU
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Buddy Brannan" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 12:21 AM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Farnsworth CW

> On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 09:02:43PM -0800, Ron D'Eau Claire wrote:
> > It bothers me how many fairly new ops report QSO's cut short by the
other
> > station again and again. They suspect that the cause was their sending
or
> > that their speed might not being exactly what the other station
"expected".
>
> That experience isn't limited to new ops. Seems that when people run
> out of the textbook QSO, they suddenly have a phone call, dinner call,
> or something very important to do right now. Either they really do,
> else they're too embarrassed to say they didn't really catch your
> question, else they just wanted another Q but didn't wanna chat. Or
> something. (Sigh) I'm up for a good ol' ragchew myself. I'd love to
> see more of us move away from textbook QSO's to real communication
> again. What do  I mean again...it's been like that since I started,
> although I expect to a lesser degree. (Am I old enough to be
> nostalgic?) I won't even bother paraphrasing Alice's Restaurant, but
> you get the idea.
>
> 73,
> --
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