[Elecraft] CW

[David A. Belsley]

Well, it took me some time to realize that lot's of cw ops out there 
really weren't so involved with their phase locked loops that they felt 
the need to begin many of their sentences with PLL.  But don't get me 
started on poor sending or I'll have to start my rant about 
peoplewhodonotspacebetweenwords.  Argh.


best wishes, and a great holiday season to all,

dave belsley, w1euy


On Dec 21, 2004, at 11:25 AM, Vic Rosenthal wrote:

> Dan Barker wrote:
>
>> Anytime you are practicing sending (or sending on the air for that 
>> matter),
>> it can be extremely enlightening (or depressing, depending on your 
>> fist) to
>> hook up a CW reader (I use CWGet) and look it over after your 
>> session. I
>> find it very helpful with spacing.
>
> Poorly spaced CW is by far the hardest kind to copy.  Have you ever 
> heard the 'banana boat swing?"  This describes a form of bug sending 
> in which the number of dits in a letter is more or less proportional 
> to the speed!  No problem, I can copy it.  Or the 'Lake Erie swing', 
> also a bug phenomenon, in which you can imagine the operator timing 
> his code to the rolling of a ship: "daaaaah di daaaaah dit DAT dah 
> didah" (yes, the 'DAT' is intentional).
>
> Thanks to keyers, these phenomena are only rarely heard today, but 
> what we do have is operators who run letters and words together.  For 
> example, I have a friend whose call apparently begins with "YH" (he is 
> in California, see if you can guess what he is trying to send).  
> Run-on word spacing is even worse, leaving my head spinning.
>
> -- 
> 73,
> Vic, K2VCO
> Fresno CA
> http://www.qsl.net/k2vco
>
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