[Elecraft] CW - SS - Off Topic

[Mike Morrow]

Lee wrote:

>I was amazed how far and how easy contesting for CW has
>become with the advent of the computer generating the code.
>The slick computer programs for contesting have sure off-loaded
>computing time on the grey matter CPU.


It almost seems equivalent to running a marathon by riding a motorcycle.

I guess I like the purity of older ways.  For example, it's amazing how many
of today's ham CW "gurus" advise Morse newcomers to skip the straight key
and begin with an iambic keyer.   No danger of learning the fundamentals
with that approach, or learning that sending decent Morse above some
relatively slow speed is much more difficult and requires much more skill
than receiving it.  Might just as well tell them to skip keys altogether and
"learn" the use of a computer or memory keyer from the start.

73,
Mike / KK5F