[Elecraft] Digimodes what am I missing?

[WILLIS COOKE]

I feel the same way Denis.  I guess when I finish Honor Roll and Challenge 3000 maybe I will get back to it, but I am old and the younger folks don't seem to get the charge from CW that I do.  To me, even when you talk, digi is too much like email!
 
Willis 'Cookie' Cooke, TDXS DX Chairman
K5EWJ & Trustee N5BPS, USS Cavalla, USS Stewart


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 From: F5vjc <foxfive.vjc at gmail.com>
To: Elecraft Reflector <Elecraft at mailman.qth.net> 
Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2014 5:56 PM
Subject: [Elecraft] Digimodes what am I missing?
 

Is it me, but what is the attraction to the  Digimodes?

I can and do understand the achievement to get a new mode working, which is
the only satisfaction that I can find.

Why?

Having succeeded in getting any Digimode working the only  traffic I see
are canned messages and brag dialogues of no great interest.
All rather boring and impersonal.
What PC, how much memory, what operating system ad nausea.

Yes I operate CW and the rubber stamp and the DX QSO are very familiar to
me but at least it's a skill to send and receive CW.

I am not knocking the Digimodes I hope but would like to know,  are there
any real keyboard to keyboard interesting QSO/s to be found,  and if so
where?

73, F5VJC
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