[Elecraft] CW Decoding - Your Brain is best

[Jim Douglass]

I agree with both sides of the discussion.

I was an Army trained cw/ RTTY intercept operator. Learned the morse 
code and where the keys were on a typewriter one
very hot summer just outside of Boston  at a place called Fort Devens. 
After that I was sent to radio-teletype school.
Years later I taught myself how to copy with a "stick" and to this day 
still feel more comfortable copying it all down.

Spend 95% + of my time in amateur radio on the digital modes of cw (ears 
only) and RTTY.

I also tell anyone who will listen that amateur radio has *so many* 
areas of interest that losing interest in one area just opens up another 
area.
This gives you the opportunity to try operating different modes, 
building things, award chasing, public service and the list goes on and on.

And best of all the Xyl always knows where I am ....
  in the shack on piddling with new idea or trying something new the 
backyard and not at the local pub!

~73 to all

Jim AC0E
On 11/8/2012 9:46 PM, elecraft-request at mailman.qth.net wrote:
> Re: CW Decoding - Your Brain is best (stan levandowski)