[Elecraft] 6M CW

[ussv dharma]

I work from various dx locations....I DO NOT, AND WILL NOT  give the "wham bam thank you mam" type of qso.  I talk with the other station....what, you don't like it...well, you spend all the money to get to dx spots and then you can do as you like.

susan....the cranky old lady


If you don't change direction you WILL arrive exactly where you're headed!! Susan Meckley, Skipper W7KFI-mm  AFA9SM                         USSV DHARMA 


--- On Mon, 7/5/10, WILLIS COOKE <wrcooke at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: WILLIS COOKE <wrcooke at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] 6M CW
> To: "Jim Brown" <jim at audiosystemsgroup.com>, "elecraft at mailman.qth.net" <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
> Date: Monday, July 5, 2010, 9:29 AM
> 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 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ________________________________
> 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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