[Elecraft] Vibroplex - seen on ABC Pan Am (OT)

[drewko]

With good CW ops you can just save all the dah's till the end and send
them all at once; if the other guy is any good he knows how to put
them all back in the right place. [See QST March 1964 "Love them
Dits..."

73,
Drew
AF2Z


On Sat, 29 Oct 2011 13:20:49 -0400, Ken VE3HLS wrote:

>It sounds like everyone is saying sending sloppy code is desirable.  How 
>odd;  I always thought hams took pride in their sending.  Well formed, 
>well spaced characters are much easier to copy.  I find nothing quaint 
>or charming about sending dits at 30wpm and dahs at 10 wpm, which is 
>typical of what I hear.  Either slow down the dits or speed up the 
>manually sent dahs.  I know there are limits on how slow you can send 
>dits with a bug, but if you can't slow it down enough then consider 
>using another instrument for sending code or resign yourself to the fact 
>that VE3HLS will never answer your CQ (that should be pretty easy to 
>live with)! :-)
>
>daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah  daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah dididit     dididit 
>daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah  daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! :-)
>
>Ken,
>VE3HLS
>
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