[Elecraft] Digimodes what am I missing?

[Ted Edwards W3TB]

Actually, you are probably not missing anything from those sending with
macros.
A fun and mischievous way to go about this:  What if you actually ask some
sort of question from the macro operators?  Could be anything so long as
another macro does not answer it.  You would quickly find out whether they
can handle that keyboard and have something to say beyond the brag macro
--- which can carry some of the most inane materials.


On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 9:31 PM, WILLIS COOKE <wrcooke at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 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
>
>
> ________________________________
>  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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-- 
73 de Ted Edwards, W3TB and GØPWW

and thinking about operating CW:
"Do today what others won't,
so you can do tomorrow what others can't."