[Elecraft] 6M CW

[WILLIS COOKE]

I don't feel that way at all.  A contact in which only grids are exchanged leaves me with little satisfaction at all.  I at least like to exchange names and QTH.  I get enough of the quicky QSOs with contests.  I don't need more on six meters or digital contacts.  I know I am out of step with the avant guarde, but I don't enjoy six meters much because of  these quick exchanges.
 Willis 'Cookie' Cooke 
K5EWJ 




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From: Jim Brown <jim at audiosystemsgroup.com>
To: "elecraft at mailman.qth.net" <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Mon, July 5, 2010 10:41:55 AM
Subject: [Elecraft] 6M CW

On Mon, 5 Jul 2010 08:29:08 -0700 (PDT), Ken McGuire wrote:

>I was frustrated at how slow the chats were on SSB (FM was even worse) -
>it seemed like they were wasting a perfectly good band opening ragchewing

Yep. Same here. Often, an opening on any given path may be there only long 
enough to exchange the grid and report. It's quite frustrating to wait to 
call a station that was S9, then S7, then S5, then S3, then fumes, while 
the time is filled with innanity. 

>When I turned down to the CW portion of the band, it almost sounded like
>a CW contest weekend.

Yes. I've gotten to the point that I spend most of my 6M efforts on CW, 
only tuning up to the SSB portion of the band when nothing is happening on 
CW. And thanks in part to the proliferation of K3s, there is a lot more CW 
activity than there was only 5 years ago.

73, Jim K9YC


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