[Elecraft] [K3] CW feature: Swing?

[Thom LaCosta]

At 11:16 PM 06/30/08, Tom Childers, N5GE wrote:

> >CW-swing is related to music.
>
>No it isn't.  It's related a person with a poor fist that cannot control the
>length of the dashes to match the dots they are sending.  It has nothing to do
>with music; It has to do with reliable communication.  I believe 
>most bug users
>who tout the Mississippi Swing should QLF.

Perhaps it's also valid to say that folks who can't copy 
machine-perfect cw should also QLF.

I'm really happy that attitudes like the one you have stated weren't 
popular when I started....they
would have driven a lot of old timers with more cw and telegraph 
experience that most off the air and certainly discouraged new folks.

Hard to imagine telling my Elmer that his cw was bad 'cause it didn't 
like a machine.  Hard to imagine that when I hung out at a coast 
station and the ops let me hear the day-to-day communnications that I 
would tell them their cw was bad.

I suspect that folks that are tone-deaf may not understand some of 
the more subtile points of cadence and spacing.

73,
Thom k3hrn