[Elecraft] Keyer weighting

[Ron D'Eau Claire]

As you no doubt recall, back in the 50's and 60's one could tune across the
Ham CW bands and recognize friends by their fists without ever listening for
a call. 

I find the CW bands sound rather 'sterile' today. I imagine the phone band
equivalent would be if every station used digitally created voice instead of
humans talking. 

73, Ron AC7AC

-----Original Message-----


The good news is that I learned to recognize ships by their sound and ops by
their fist before I ever heard their call. :-)  The surprising thing to me
then and still now is that the ham CW bands were filled with generally
stable signals, some mild chirps occasionally, and a few key clicks ... and
generally very good fists if the ships were to be the standard.  They still
are.

73,

Fred K6DGW