[Elecraft] [OT] CW speed and decoders and SS

[Lee Buller]

What a nice thread....spares me the crazy emails about shipping dates and how one feels about all that.....  Patience is a virtue....

Tom is right....best decoder is the REIP and LEIP.  Right Ear Input Port and Left Ear Input Port going through the fastest computer made today with the results coming out the DFP...Digital Finger Port

I did SS for years with pencil and paper....and I would get 1000 QSO or more.  There were many ways that you could keep track of the number....copy the information on to paper....and DUPE check them on another paper grid.  It was nothing for guys to run well over 1500 Q's using pencil and paper.  There were many neat tricks too....mechanical pencils...battery pencil sharpeners...etc.

Sending was by hand or if you got fancy...a memory keyer that did not have a sequential number programmed in.  You had to send the number and press the button to send the rest of the exchange.  For years, I sent it all.  Then came the Autek memory keyer....and then the CK1 and CK2 for AEA...and then came NA.

Thanks for NA.  Thanks for CT.  Thanks for all the others that came along too.

It would take me a week of working 5 hours a night to re-dupe the logs.  Computers are great.  I never want to go back...or I will just quit doing contests.

I like to contest too.  

Thanks for all the the QSO ast W0NO.  It is nice when VY1JA calls you!

Lee - K0WA

 

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