[Elecraft] CW DECODING

[David Gilbert]

That would be like someone telling you they have less respect for you 
because they understand how the DSP in your rig works better than you 
do, or that they have less respect for you because they know more about 
propagation than you do, or that they have less respect for you because 
they understand antenna and transmission theory better than you do ... 
all of which is probably true.

I'm a 98% CW operator as well, but this CW bigotry is really old and stupid.

Dave   AB7E



On 11/9/2012 7:01 AM, Kenneth Waites K5WK wrote:
> I just cant let this pass without a comment.  I still remember the weeks I spent as a teenager in the Boys Scouts learning the code.  Then with pencil trying to copy code on the novice 40 meter band.  Then the first time I realized I had copied a call sign.  The first words I copied were "name is ...".
>
> Today I have less respect for Extra Class operators who do not copy CW.  It just seams they got their grade more cheaply than those of us who worked hard toward the 20 wpm in front of that freightening FCC Examiner.  And I am not the world's best CW op, but it occupies 98% of my QSOs.
>
> These days I consider it the only art that remains in the hobby.  CW FOREVER!
>
> K5WK Ken