[Elecraft] Off-Topic: CW sending vs. recieving speed

[dave.wilburn at verizon.net]

Your inability to perceive the problem is (likely) directly proportional to the years you have been doing code. ;)

I did code mobile for the first time recently. Coming back from dropping my son off at Camp Lejeune. It was the New Eng. QSO party.  My paddles were the buttons on the mic of a 706.  It was lots of listening up front. Then just reply to their call.

I didn't try running a freq while driving.  You have to save something to shoot for.

David Wilburn
NM4M 
Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry

-----Original Message-----
From: ".k8dd." <k8dd at inbox.com>

Date: Fri, 07 Aug 2009 17:43:55 
To: Grant Youngman<nq5t at tx.rr.com>
Cc: Elecraft_List Reflector<elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Off-Topic:  CW sending vs. recieving speed


I've never understood that line of thought.
Why would you take target practice at little tykes?  That's unreal.

On the other hand people will talk on cell phones while driving and 
people will pick up a microphone and talk on 2m.  That's all ok.  But 
talk about talking on cw ..... You don't have a cell phone or a 
microphone to drop if things go wrong - just take your hand off the key 
or paddle and let it sit there.
And what's the difference between copying phone or CW in your head? 
That's not an argument either!
I've just never understood the comments that get made about mobile CW.

73     :^]
Hank    K8DD



Grant Youngman wrote:
> Hmmm .. I can't use my cell phone when driving through a school zone  
> here, even with a hands-free.  I wonder if I could get away with  
> taking target practice at the little tykes walking to school while  
> sending mobile CW :-)
> 
> Grant/NQ5T
> 
>> always sent around 25-30 WPM. I could never send as well as I could  
>> copy
>> when mobile, due to the car bouncing off potholes, other vehicles,  
>> etc.
>> ;-) As I got older, my sending speed fell below my copy speed even at
>> home.  Regardless, unless I get a QRS request, I assume someone
>> answering my CQ can copy the speed I used.
>

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